In 2025, 572 US girls were named Iyla, making it the 525th most common girls’ name of the year, up 43 places from #568 in 2024. That is 40 more than the 532 girls named Iyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #525, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 572. For comparison, it was #1,834 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iyla in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 5 babies. In all, 4,045 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,666 babies named Iyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,342 US girls were named Iyla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 572. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,810 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Iyla ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #236 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Eula (47,491 babies since 1880), Ila (25,120 babies since 1880) and Iola (9,659 babies since 1880).