Nayla

“Variant of Naila — Gracious” — Arabic origin

Girl's name · #1078 in the US (2025) · Trending

Nayla is climbing: on the charts since 1979, it reached #1078 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 230 girls given the name last year. Roughly 3,600 have carried it all-time. Together with its spelling variants Naila (#1728) and Nailah (#1829), Nayla would rank around #638 with about 450 births last year — the newborns split about 50/26/24 across Nayla, Naila, and Nailah.

Around the world: about 1 in 530 girls in Puerto Rico (2025) · about 1 in 850 girls in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 850 girls in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Naylas

Nayla Moawad — Lebanese first lady, journalist and politician
Nayla Al Khaja — Emirati film director and screenwriter
Nayla Tueni — journalist
Nayla Hayek — Swiss businesswoman and horse breeding expert
Nayla Chidiac — Lebanese-French psychologist, writer and poet

What Naylas become

Among 22 notable people named Nayla:

No single standout — notable Naylas spread across many fields.

Similar names: Naila · Safa · Nailea · Rayla · Hafsa · Tala

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