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Nalia vs Nalleli

American parents have registered 853 Nalias since 1880, against 558 Nallelis. Nalia is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nalia against Nalleli, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nalia Nalleli

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Nalleli for 22 years and Nalia for 21 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Nalia Nalleli
Total US births 853558
Most in one year 4777
Babies in 2025 47under 5
Estimated living today 850550
Median age today 1024
Peak year 20252001
Best rank 3,296th girls2,126th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296thunranked
First recorded 19821984
Girls / boys 853 / 0558 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nallelis alive today are over 24; half the Nalias are over 10. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nalia and Nalleli.