Nalya

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nalya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 527K
  • FRFrance1 in 98K
  • BYBelarus1 in 329K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈719

across 2 countries

2

recorded for this name

Sources
74

856 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 98K

France

Spellings & scripts

NalyaLatin · Russian15 records
НальяCyrillic · Russian1.4K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Наля in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Налья in RU Russia, BY Belarus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nalya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia1,965651 rec.Налья74
FR France6901 in 98K690
UA Ukraine184174 rec.Наля8
KZ Kazakhstan4916 rec.Наля11
BR Brazil291 in 7.3M29
KG Kyrgyzstan138 rec.Наля3
BY Belarus132 rec.Налья5
FI Finland60 rec.Наля1
MQ Martinique5
GP Guadeloupe5
GF French Guiana5
RE Réunion5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French2.7K84%
  • Portuguese1645%
  • Turkish913%
  • English893%
  • Dutch271%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French2,72084%
Portuguese1645%
Turkish913%
English893%
Dutch271%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses

Nalya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, a wooden barn in the traditional Eastern Black Sea architecture, which is placed on four pillars and used to store maize, flour, fruit, etc. away from animals and moisture

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time

0246201520205 · 2013

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Nalya in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion), Réunion, 2013–2023
Yearrecords
20135
20145
20165
20175
20185
20195
20215
20235

RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)8 years between 2013–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence

Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Nalya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024690#814
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202229
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)29#96,655
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)23#55,674
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20227#1,076
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20177#1,122
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20186#1,221
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)20245#46
RE RéunionINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)20235#378
GP GuadeloupeINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)20195#76
GF French GuianaINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana)20125#121
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20245#1,326

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nalya?
We estimate roughly 719 people bear Nalya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Nalya have the most bearers?
Nalya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled налья.
Where is Nalya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nalya is densest in France — about 1 in 98 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
Is Nalya a male or female name?
Nalya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nalya”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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