Meaning not yet researched.
Laylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 179 in 2025. Its best rank was #595 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #595 in 2014; #1,254 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,254 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #595.
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Laylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 179 girls in 2025. Peak: #595 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 496 (2014).
In 2025, 179 US girls were named Laylah, making it the 1,254th most common girls’ name of the year, down 191 places from #1,063 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 235 girls named Laylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #595, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 496. For comparison, it was #706 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laylah in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 7,297 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,104 babies named Laylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,142 US girls were named Laylah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 434. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,979 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laylah ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #722 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), Lailah (6,900 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 Laylah 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 7 | #722 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #790 | #564 |
| Illinois | 10 | #892 | #467 |
| Michigan | 8 | #913 | #751 |
| Arizona | 6 | #980 | #520 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,001 | #645 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,036 | #797 |
| California | 23 | #1,132 | #731 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,182 | #770 |
| New York | 9 | #1,468 | #950 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,623 | #721 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,676 | #668 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 2024 | 235 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2023 | 261 | #983 | — | — |
| 2022 | 294 | #921 | — | — |
| 2021 | 315 | #866 | — | — |
| 2020 | 347 | #785 | — | — |
| 2019 | 334 | #818 | — | — |
| 2018 | 352 | #776 | — | — |
| 2017 | 391 | #730 | — | — |
| 2016 | 434 | #673 | — | — |
| 2015 | 405 | #706 | — | — |
| 2014 | 496 | #595 | — | — |
| 2013 | 446 | #630 | — | — |
| 2012 | 458 | #623 | — | — |
| 2011 | 411 | #685 | — | — |
| 2010 | 377 | #742 | — | — |
| 2009 | 329 | #848 | — | — |
| 2008 | 269 | #990 | — | — |
| 2007 | 237 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2006 | 204 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,128 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,947 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,328 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,739 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,108 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,197 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,702 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,364 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,869 | — | — |
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).