Meaning not yet researched.
Lael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,264 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 61% of babies named Lael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,264 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lael: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,264 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 156 (2025).
In 2025, 156 US boys were named Lael, making it the 1,264th most common boys’ name of the year, up 215 places from #1,479 in 2024. That is 33 more than the 123 boys named Lael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,264, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #3,404 in 2015 and #3,517 in 1950.
In 2025, 99 US girls were named Lael, making it the 1,952nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 730 places from #2,682 in 2024. That is 34 more than the 65 girls named Lael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,688, reached in 1933. The most girls given the name in a single year was 99, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,394 in 2015 and #3,560 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lael in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 3,526 US babies have been given the name, 67% of them girls and 33% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 833 babies named Lael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 556 US boys were named Lael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lael ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #670 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Layal, Laelle and Lale are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Layal (817), Laelle (178), Lale (35), Lal (33), Layle (22), Layel (6).
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 Lael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 7 | #670 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #767 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #917 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #988 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #998 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,088 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,174 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,181 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,187 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,221 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,224 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,311 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,952 | 156 | #1,264 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,682 | 123 | #1,479 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,065 | 41 | #3,038 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,058 | 31 | #3,663 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,093 | 28 | #3,883 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,122 | 40 | #2,959 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,756 | 52 | #2,539 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,423 | 30 | #3,666 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,858 | 22 | #4,541 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,886 | 33 | #3,403 |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,394 | 33 | #3,404 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,907 | 23 | #4,333 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,501 | 21 | #4,552 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,612 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,002 | 23 | #4,299 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,344 | 14 | #6,236 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,919 | 15 | #5,978 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,678 | 19 | #4,989 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,424 | 16 | #5,577 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,707 | 8 | #9,230 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,688 | 11 | #6,906 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,554 | 19 | #4,522 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,366 | 12 | #6,097 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,836 | 7 | #9,002 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,772 | 15 | #5,039 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,482 | 5 | #11,431 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,553 | 9 | #6,868 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,951 | 9 | #6,616 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,131 | 6 | #8,792 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,231 | 10 | #5,796 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,452 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,173 | 11 | #5,296 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,399 | 10 | #5,608 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,607 | 6 | #8,015 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,437 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,883 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,995 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,062 | 5 | #7,988 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,147 | 6 | #6,590 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,322 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,924 | 10 | #4,219 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,098 | 8 | #4,793 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,576 | 9 | #4,340 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,590 | 10 | #4,108 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,625 | 7 | #5,241 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,921 | 11 | #3,746 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,255 | 10 | #3,962 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,368 | 17 | #2,619 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,547 | 26 | #1,930 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,764 | 14 | #2,899 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,105 | 13 | #3,008 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,130 | 19 | #2,239 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,044 | 14 | #2,662 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,281 | 15 | #2,487 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,435 | 12 | #2,907 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,692 | 15 | #2,455 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,064 | 6 | #4,194 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,348 | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,795 | 6 | #3,848 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,360 | 5 | #4,377 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,179 | 5 | #4,305 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,560 | 6 | #3,517 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,245 | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,248 | 5 | #3,691 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,496 | 5 | #3,809 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,834 | 6 | #3,594 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,223 | 5 | #4,510 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,761 | — | — |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,664 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,218 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,716 | — | — |
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).