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The first name 
Nylah

Nylah is a female first name.

Nylah – popular and common in the US

The name Nylah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Nylah ranks 391. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Nylah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nylah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Nylah

What does the name 
Nylah mean?

As a female variant of Niles, Nylah goes back to the English and Irish name Neil. Which in turn derived from the Irish Niall, whose origin is uncertain. A connection with the Old Irish words “nia” for “hero” or “nél” for “cloud” has been suggested.

The name gained popularity ... in the early 2000s, influenced by similar-sounding names such as Kyla.

Nylah -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Nylah, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to women and girls named Nylah. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Nylah living in one state or another. If your name is Nylah and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Nevada, which has the most people named Nylah relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,584 women and girls their names before you hear Nylah as an answer just once.

Nylah has 5 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Nylah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.

Other names with 
N, y, l, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Nylah – N, y, l, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Nyhla or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nylah

If your name is Nylah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Nylah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nylah, you can simply say:

Nut

Yoyo

Lion

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Nylah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Nylah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Nylah

Nylah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Nylah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Nylah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
Y
L
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Nylah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
Y
L
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nylah sounds like this: