Meaning not yet researched.
Lailah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #651 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #651 in 2010; #1,602 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lailah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,602 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #651.
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Lailah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 girls in 2025. Peak: #651 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 451 (2010).
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Lailah, making it the 1,602nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 492 places from #1,110 in 2024. That is 90 fewer than the 221 girls named Lailah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #651, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 451. For comparison, it was #699 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lailah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 6,900 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,829 babies named Lailah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,549 US girls were named Lailah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 402. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,269 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lailah ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #752 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), Laila (43,507 babies since 1880), Laylah (7,297 babies since 1880) and Laela (1,685 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lailah 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 13 | #752 | #668 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,149 | #365 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,327 | #571 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,592 | #768 |
| New York | 8 | #1,598 | #723 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,621 | #528 |
| California | 11 | #1,895 | #784 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,984 | #733 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2023 | 218 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 2021 | 204 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 2020 | 240 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2019 | 274 | #963 | — | — |
| 2018 | 333 | #815 | — | — |
| 2017 | 345 | #794 | — | — |
| 2016 | 402 | #709 | — | — |
| 2015 | 408 | #699 | — | — |
| 2014 | 406 | #695 | — | — |
| 2013 | 414 | #684 | — | — |
| 2012 | 400 | #704 | — | — |
| 2011 | 396 | #703 | — | — |
| 2010 | 451 | #651 | — | — |
| 2009 | 364 | #778 | — | — |
| 2008 | 310 | #895 | — | — |
| 2007 | 255 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 2006 | 193 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2005 | 173 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,339 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,228 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,609 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,659 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,688 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,704 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,171 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,294 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,715 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,253 | — | — |
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).