Nilsa
Nilsa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196076 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1946
- 1,804people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,804 girls have been named Nilsa in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 76 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 34%.
By decade
In 1960, its biggest year
Nilsa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Nilsa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorypeak 1961
- Tereasapeak 1964
- Migdaliapeak 1961
- Terisapeak 1968
- Kandypeak 1965
- Carlapeak 1962
- Reneepeak 1962
- Terresapeak 1962
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.