In 2025, 146 US girls were named Baila, making it the 1,467th most common girls’ name of the year, down 46 places from #1,421 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 157 girls named Baila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,421, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 157. For comparison, it was #1,706 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baila in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 8 babies. In all, 3,416 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,119 babies named Baila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,369 US girls were named Baila; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 157. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,009 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baila ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #167 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bayla (1,066 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Baela, Baylah and Baylaa are summarised on this page.