Meaning not yet researched.
Leila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,193 in 2025. Its best rank was #165 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #165 in 1880; #259 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#259 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #165.
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Leila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,193 girls in 2025. Peak: #165 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 1,509 (2010).
In 2025, 1,193 US girls were named Leila, making it the 259th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #267 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 1,197 girls named Leila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #165, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,509, in 2010. For comparison, it was #248 in 2015 and #657 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leila in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 80 babies with the name. In all, 55,447 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,919 babies named Leila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,253 US girls were named Leila; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,410. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,347 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leila ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #34 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Layla (129,245 babies since 1880), Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Laila (43,507 babies since 1880) and Leyla (10,564 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leighla, Lejla and Leeola 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 Arabic, Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leighla (896), Lejla (878), Leeola (39), Lajla (34), Leella (27), Lealah (24), Leahla (13), Leayla (11).
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 Leila 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 14 | #34 | #37 |
| Alaska | 6 | #123 | — |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #133 | #194 |
| California | 211 | #145 | #146 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #170 | #141 |
| Florida | 103 | #170 | #151 |
| New York | 89 | #185 | #179 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #204 | #149 |
| Utah | 23 | #206 | #328 |
| Virginia | 40 | #208 | #257 |
| Washington | 34 | #214 | #309 |
| Arizona | 31 | #223 | #267 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #228 | #212 |
| New Jersey | 35 | #236 | #143 |
| Georgia | 44 | #242 | #300 |
| Michigan | 37 | #249 | #286 |
| Texas | 134 | #260 | #327 |
| Maryland | 20 | #262 | #286 |
| Oregon | 14 | #265 | #269 |
| Illinois | 36 | #300 | #253 |
| Nevada | 9 | #313 | #345 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #317 | #373 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #341 | #555 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #342 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #357 | #303 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #365 | #343 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #368 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #466 | #551 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #467 | #565 |
| Colorado | 12 | #480 | #316 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #487 | #355 |
| Ohio | 22 | #496 | #449 |
| Missouri | 12 | #500 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #501 | #342 |
| Indiana | 13 | #530 | #432 |
| Iowa | 6 | #540 | #496 |
| Alabama | 9 | #557 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #856 | #515 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,193 | #259 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,197 | #267 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,272 | #240 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,246 | #246 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,385 | #214 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,409 | #205 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,388 | #225 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,358 | #239 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,410 | #220 | 5 | #13,464 |
| 2016 | 1,395 | #229 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,309 | #248 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,331 | #243 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,472 | #215 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,365 | #234 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,377 | #231 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,509 | #205 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,390 | #240 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,499 | #226 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,394 | #251 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,161 | #285 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,043 | #308 | — | — |
| 2004 | 893 | #355 | — | — |
| 2003 | 893 | #345 | — | — |
| 2002 | 638 | #451 | — | — |
| 2001 | 566 | #492 | — | — |
| 2000 | 427 | #595 | — | — |
| 1999 | 306 | #735 | — | — |
| 1998 | 297 | #735 | — | — |
| 1997 | 213 | #936 | — | — |
| 1996 | 180 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1995 | 217 | #880 | — | — |
| 1994 | 186 | #997 | — | — |
| 1993 | 199 | #950 | — | — |
| 1992 | 197 | #974 | — | — |
| 1991 | 199 | #954 | — | — |
| 1990 | 183 | #998 | — | — |
| 1989 | 200 | #911 | — | — |
| 1988 | 221 | #828 | — | — |
| 1987 | 215 | #815 | — | — |
| 1986 | 212 | #795 | — | — |
| 1985 | 220 | #770 | — | — |
| 1984 | 205 | #783 | — | — |
| 1983 | 213 | #759 | — | — |
| 1982 | 212 | #775 | — | — |
| 1981 | 224 | #736 | — | — |
| 1980 | 184 | #847 | — | — |
| 1979 | 196 | #807 | — | — |
| 1978 | 186 | #806 | — | — |
| 1977 | 192 | #786 | — | — |
| 1976 | 160 | #854 | — | — |
| 1975 | 157 | #852 | — | — |
| 1974 | 155 | #849 | — | — |
| 1973 | 145 | #881 | — | — |
| 1972 | 140 | #899 | — | — |
| 1971 | 163 | #844 | — | — |
| 1970 | 130 | #972 | — | — |
| 1969 | 136 | #908 | — | — |
| 1968 | 105 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1967 | 141 | #851 | — | — |
| 1966 | 175 | #746 | — | — |
| 1965 | 136 | #860 | — | — |
| 1964 | 161 | #826 | — | — |
| 1963 | 171 | #793 | — | — |
| 1962 | 190 | #756 | — | — |
| 1961 | 191 | #753 | — | — |
| 1960 | 172 | #780 | — | — |
| 1959 | 192 | #730 | — | — |
| 1958 | 157 | #803 | — | — |
| 1957 | 177 | #750 | — | — |
| 1956 | 182 | #712 | — | — |
| 1955 | 177 | #711 | — | — |
| 1954 | 195 | #660 | — | — |
| 1953 | 176 | #682 | — | — |
| 1952 | 161 | #703 | — | — |
| 1951 | 154 | #705 | — | — |
| 1950 | 169 | #657 | — | — |
| 1949 | 180 | #617 | — | — |
| 1948 | 156 | #670 | — | — |
| 1947 | 177 | #630 | — | — |
| 1946 | 166 | #616 | — | — |
| 1945 | 176 | #552 | — | — |
| 1944 | 197 | #515 | — | — |
| 1943 | 204 | #525 | — | — |
| 1942 | 202 | #522 | — | — |
| 1941 | 211 | #482 | 6 | #3,345 |
| 1940 | 183 | #514 | — | — |
| 1939 | 177 | #504 | — | — |
| 1938 | 190 | #483 | — | — |
| 1937 | 239 | #419 | — | — |
| 1936 | 183 | #473 | — | — |
| 1935 | 240 | #418 | — | — |
| 1934 | 241 | #423 | — | — |
| 1933 | 294 | #373 | — | — |
| 1932 | 305 | #366 | — | — |
| 1931 | 287 | #384 | — | — |
| 1930 | 317 | #387 | — | — |
| 1929 | 285 | #396 | — | — |
| 1928 | 279 | #405 | — | — |
| 1927 | 306 | #393 | — | — |
| 1926 | 313 | #387 | — | — |
| 1925 | 344 | #367 | — | — |
| 1924 | 365 | #359 | — | — |
| 1923 | 335 | #363 | — | — |
| 1922 | 363 | #342 | — | — |
| 1921 | 345 | #356 | — | — |
| 1920 | 405 | #323 | — | — |
| 1919 | 384 | #323 | — | — |
| 1918 | 369 | #338 | — | — |
| 1917 | 352 | #333 | — | — |
| 1916 | 368 | #316 | — | — |
| 1915 | 363 | #307 | — | — |
| 1914 | 259 | #327 | — | — |
| 1913 | 234 | #312 | — | — |
| 1912 | 195 | #325 | — | — |
| 1911 | 143 | #332 | — | — |
| 1910 | 163 | #304 | — | — |
| 1909 | 145 | #296 | — | — |
| 1908 | 150 | #288 | — | — |
| 1907 | 171 | #262 | — | — |
| 1906 | 160 | #260 | — | — |
| 1905 | 154 | #264 | — | — |
| 1904 | 148 | #260 | — | — |
| 1903 | 138 | #262 | — | — |
| 1902 | 140 | #264 | — | — |
| 1901 | 145 | #240 | — | — |
| 1900 | 178 | #239 | — | — |
| 1899 | 139 | #236 | — | — |
| 1898 | 161 | #231 | — | — |
| 1897 | 157 | #217 | — | — |
| 1896 | 149 | #228 | — | — |
| 1895 | 147 | #228 | — | — |
| 1894 | 152 | #215 | — | — |
| 1893 | 173 | #195 | — | — |
| 1892 | 178 | #189 | — | — |
| 1891 | 178 | #179 | — | — |
| 1890 | 154 | #192 | — | — |
| 1889 | 126 | #205 | — | — |
| 1888 | 170 | #171 | — | — |
| 1887 | 112 | #188 | — | — |
| 1886 | 115 | #188 | — | — |
| 1885 | 123 | #167 | — | — |
| 1884 | 103 | #174 | — | — |
| 1883 | 90 | #177 | — | — |
| 1882 | 83 | #173 | — | — |
| 1881 | 77 | #173 | — | — |
| 1880 | 80 | #165 | — | — |
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).