Meaning not yet researched.
Iylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,086 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Iylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,086 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Iylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,086 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 91 (2022).
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Iylah, making it the 2,086th most common girls’ name of the year, up 361 places from #2,447 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 74 girls named Iylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,086, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 91, in 2022. For comparison, it was #8,647 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iylah in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 7 babies. In all, 723 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 485 babies named Iylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 640 US girls were named Iylah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,859 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Iylah ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #969 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ila (25,120 babies since 1880), Iola (9,659 babies since 1880), Iyla (4,045 babies since 1880) and Eulah (1,871 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Iylah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 6 | #969 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,200 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,251 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,554 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,882 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).