Meaning not yet researched.
Leilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 125 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,002 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,002 in 2010; #1,660 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,660 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,002.
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Leilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 125 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,002 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 251 (2010).
In 2025, 125 US girls were named Leilah, making it the 1,660th most common girls’ name of the year, up 102 places from #1,762 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 115 girls named Leilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,002, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 251. For comparison, it was #1,251 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leilah in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 6 babies. In all, 4,241 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,013 babies named Leilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,660 US girls were named Leilah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,858 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leilah ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,103 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), Laila (43,507 babies since 1880) and Leyla (10,564 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leighlah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leighlah (41).
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 Leilah 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #1,103 | #711 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,338 | #915 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,474 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,520 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,588 | #1,511 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,625 | #1,024 |
| New York | 7 | #1,756 | #1,879 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2021 | 162 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 2018 | 198 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2017 | 205 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2015 | 196 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2014 | 211 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2013 | 204 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2012 | 189 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2011 | 215 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2010 | 251 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,360 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,816 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,102 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,968 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,202 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,506 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,416 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,174 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,396 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,240 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,497 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,400 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,570 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,878 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,331 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,559 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,464 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,187 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,251 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,558 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,649 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,685 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,165 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,611 | — | — |
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).