Nilaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- nih-LAH-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Nilaya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “home, abode”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Nilaya mean?
Sanskrit: from Sanskrit nilaya
“home, abode”
Is Nilaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Nilaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nilaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Nilaya, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Nilaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nilaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
Names like Nilaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Adhara, Aadhya, Avaya, Arya, Avani, Navya, Anaya, Nirvana, Aarya, Inaya, Akshara, Anvika
Names related to Nilaya
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
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, “Nilaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nilaya, updated 20 October 2026.