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How popular is the name Nala?
Births per year, rank history and how many Nalas are alive today.
Nala (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 590th in 2025 with 66 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 102 babies were given the name, the 428th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 647 in 2024 before climbing back to the 590th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Nala is one spelling of a name also recorded as Nahla; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Nala you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Nalas born in England and Wales are between 4 and 11, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Nala - on average, only one in every 243 such rooms contains a Nala.
How many babies are named Nala each year?
Includes all spellings: Nala, Nahla. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Nala spelling rank?
Where does the Nahla spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Nala most popular?
Nala peaked in 2021, when 141 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Nala?
At least 1,300 people named Nala in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Nala?
Most living Nalas are between 4 and 11; the most common age is about 5.
Is Nala becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.