Meaning not yet researched.
Layla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,338 in 2025. Its best rank was #23 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #23 in 2019; #36 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Layla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#36 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #23.
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Layla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,338 girls in 2025. Peak: #23 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 6,523 (2019).
In 2025, 5,338 US girls were named Layla, making it the 36th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #37 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 5,325 girls named Layla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #23, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,523. For comparison, it was #30 in 2015 and #4,542 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layla in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 7 babies. In all, 129,245 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 63,300 babies named Layla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 60,716 US girls were named Layla; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 6,523. In 2025 that was about 1 in 301 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layla ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #10 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Laila (43,507 babies since 1880), Leyla (10,564 babies since 1880) and Leilah (4,241 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lala, Laelah and Lalah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lala (1,778), Laelah (474), Lalah (457), Leelah (446), Lalla (324), Laiyla (273), Lahela (230), Laylaa (131), Laiylah (86), Lailaa (59), Laihla (39), Laylla (25), and more.
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 Layla 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 26 | #10 | #26 |
| New Mexico | 36 | #19 | #13 |
| Connecticut | 77 | #21 | #40 |
| New Jersey | 186 | #23 | #29 |
| Maine | 26 | #23 | #62 |
| West Virginia | 35 | #24 | #14 |
| Michigan | 170 | #26 | #26 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #27 | #90 |
| New York | 326 | #28 | #40 |
| New Hampshire | 29 | #29 | #34 |
| Wisconsin | 95 | #30 | #46 |
| Illinois | 204 | #30 | #31 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | #30 | #40 |
| California | 624 | #32 | #42 |
| Alabama | 79 | #32 | #25 |
| South Dakota | 19 | #32 | #41 |
| Mississippi | 42 | #32 | #29 |
| Maryland | 89 | #33 | #31 |
| Pennsylvania | 194 | #34 | #26 |
| Arizona | 120 | #34 | #38 |
| Florida | 324 | #34 | #23 |
| Ohio | 193 | #34 | #26 |
| Virginia | 147 | #34 | #25 |
| Nevada | 44 | #35 | #39 |
| Kansas | 55 | #35 | #45 |
| Vermont | 10 | #37 | #70 |
| South Carolina | 80 | #37 | #22 |
| Tennessee | 121 | #38 | #23 |
| Georgia | 158 | #38 | #17 |
| Minnesota | 90 | #38 | #43 |
| Indiana | 109 | #39 | #31 |
| Texas | 539 | #40 | #35 |
| Massachusetts | 110 | #41 | #59 |
| Colorado | 95 | #41 | #36 |
| North Carolina | 179 | #42 | #40 |
| Oregon | 53 | #43 | #66 |
| Alaska | 11 | #43 | #42 |
| Iowa | 49 | #44 | #35 |
| Oklahoma | 56 | #45 | #28 |
| North Dakota | 16 | #46 | #23 |
| Kentucky | 68 | #46 | #26 |
| Louisiana | 63 | #46 | #18 |
| Washington | 102 | #49 | #64 |
| Missouri | 83 | #49 | #27 |
| Hawaii | 12 | #49 | #36 |
| Rhode Island | 15 | #50 | #50 |
| Arkansas | 41 | #54 | #39 |
| Utah | 55 | #68 | #97 |
| Idaho | 24 | #80 | #89 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #82 | #30 |
| Montana | 10 | #94 | #92 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,338 | #36 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5,325 | #37 | 7 | #10,495 |
| 2023 | 5,703 | #30 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6,096 | #29 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6,356 | #24 | 7 | #10,352 |
| 2020 | 6,228 | #24 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6,523 | #23 | 5 | #13,315 |
| 2018 | 6,512 | #27 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6,335 | #26 | 10 | #7,909 |
| 2016 | 6,300 | #30 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6,348 | #30 | 7 | #10,190 |
| 2014 | 6,466 | #29 | 6 | #11,565 |
| 2013 | 6,490 | #30 | 5 | #13,265 |
| 2012 | 6,279 | #31 | 8 | #9,369 |
| 2011 | 6,088 | #35 | 10 | #7,849 |
| 2010 | 5,901 | #36 | 7 | #10,317 |
| 2009 | 5,212 | #45 | 5 | #13,665 |
| 2008 | 4,931 | #55 | 8 | #9,519 |
| 2007 | 3,903 | #85 | 8 | #9,407 |
| 2006 | 3,362 | #101 | 7 | #10,207 |
| 2005 | 2,384 | #144 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,012 | #167 | 9 | #7,926 |
| 2003 | 1,687 | #195 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,073 | #291 | — | — |
| 2001 | 947 | #328 | — | — |
| 2000 | 698 | #407 | — | — |
| 1999 | 351 | #656 | — | — |
| 1998 | 247 | #860 | — | — |
| 1997 | 190 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1996 | 215 | #915 | — | — |
| 1995 | 235 | #836 | — | — |
| 1994 | 224 | #875 | — | — |
| 1993 | 320 | #684 | — | — |
| 1992 | 166 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1990 | 132 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1988 | 109 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1986 | 127 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1984 | 111 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1983 | 87 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1980 | 130 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1978 | 142 | #977 | — | — |
| 1977 | 206 | #746 | — | — |
| 1976 | 174 | #800 | — | — |
| 1975 | 194 | #743 | — | — |
| 1974 | 185 | #758 | — | — |
| 1973 | 151 | #853 | — | — |
| 1972 | 124 | #975 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,722 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,310 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,605 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,542 | — | — |
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).