Meaning not yet researched.
Laila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 755 in 2025. Its best rank was #135 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #135 in 2009; #413 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#413 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #135.
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Laila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 755 girls in 2025. Peak: #135 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 2,414 (2008).
In 2025, 755 US girls were named Laila, making it the 413th most common girls’ name of the year, down 42 places from #371 in 2024. That is 89 fewer than the 844 girls named Laila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #135, reached in 2009. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,414, in 2008. For comparison, it was #170 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laila in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 7 babies. In all, 43,507 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 19,671 babies named Laila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,958 US girls were named Laila; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,951. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,129 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laila ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #219 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Layla (129,245 babies since 1880), Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Leyla (10,564 babies since 1880) and Leilah (4,241 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laighla are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Laighla (21).
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 Laila 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 24 | #219 | #95 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #264 | #124 |
| New York | 62 | #273 | #159 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #280 | #153 |
| Virginia | 29 | #293 | #103 |
| North Carolina | 38 | #295 | #134 |
| Kansas | 11 | #307 | #318 |
| Illinois | 34 | #319 | #155 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #323 | #108 |
| Florida | 56 | #327 | #144 |
| Michigan | 27 | #336 | #138 |
| Ohio | 30 | #380 | #177 |
| Alabama | 13 | #382 | #130 |
| Georgia | 29 | #394 | #96 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #429 | #189 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #431 | #164 |
| Texas | 77 | #437 | #201 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #443 | #246 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #463 | #255 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #469 | #274 |
| Washington | 15 | #469 | #288 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #477 | #163 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #482 | #202 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #500 | #231 |
| California | 67 | #502 | #223 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #521 | #297 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #545 | #136 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #550 | #162 |
| Nevada | 5 | #566 | #134 |
| Utah | 7 | #571 | #327 |
| Arizona | 11 | #610 | #298 |
| Iowa | 5 | #631 | #656 |
| Colorado | 6 | #854 | #180 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,020 | #241 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,127 | #166 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 755 | #413 | — | — |
| 2024 | 844 | #371 | — | — |
| 2023 | 989 | #313 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,031 | #309 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,253 | #243 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,303 | #227 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,461 | #210 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,620 | #182 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,751 | #173 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,951 | #164 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,889 | #170 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,147 | #149 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2,143 | #144 | 5 | #13,248 |
| 2012 | 2,250 | #143 | 7 | #10,341 |
| 2011 | 2,198 | #141 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,249 | #140 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,379 | #135 | 5 | #13,633 |
| 2008 | 2,414 | #140 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,365 | #148 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,445 | #236 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,453 | #234 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,282 | #250 | 6 | #10,785 |
| 2003 | 1,306 | #250 | — | — |
| 2002 | 801 | #370 | — | — |
| 2001 | 612 | #453 | — | — |
| 2000 | 389 | #644 | — | — |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1991 | 101 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,908 | — | — |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,598 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,742 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,876 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #891 | — | — |
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).