Nayleah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- nay-LEE-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Nayleah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Nayleah come from?
Modern: spelling of Naylea; modern spelling, perhaps of Nayeli or Naila
Meaning borrowed from Naylea.
Is Nayleah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nayleah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nayleah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 46% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Nayleah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had fewer girls named Nayleah than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Nayleah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nayleah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
Names like Nayleah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Zaliyah Kaliyah Amoura Kamiyah Naziyah Zariah Alaiyah Jaliyah Aziyah Nusaybah Naliyah
Names related to Nayleah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nayleah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nayleah, updated 20 October 2026.