Meaning not yet researched.
Aylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,149 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,149 in 2021; #1,310 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,310 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,149.
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Aylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,149 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 213 (2021).
In 2025, 170 US girls were named Aylah, making it the 1,310th most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #1,326 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 173 girls named Aylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,149, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 213. For comparison, it was #2,215 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aylah in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 2,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,073 babies named Aylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,496 US girls were named Aylah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 213. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aylah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #261 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayla (38,040 babies since 1880), Aila (4,268 babies since 1880), Alaa (1,989 babies since 1880) and Ayala (1,201 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aylah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 6 | #261 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #751 | #1,486 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #811 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #897 | #688 |
| Arizona | 6 | #933 | — |
| California | 29 | #952 | #2,527 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,088 | #1,128 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,127 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,196 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,242 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,453 | #2,134 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,468 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,560 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 2024 | 173 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 2023 | 186 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 2022 | 183 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2021 | 213 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 2020 | 148 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,624 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,935 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,738 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,367 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,359 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,911 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,933 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,505 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,380 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,182 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,986 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).