Meaning not yet researched.
Leyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 478 in 2025. Its best rank was #586 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #586 in 2020; #611 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#611 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #586.
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Leyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 478 girls in 2025. Peak: #586 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 504 (2024).
In 2025, 478 US girls were named Leyla, making it the 611th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #600 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 504 girls named Leyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #586, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 504, in 2024. For comparison, it was #783 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leyla in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 10,564 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,096 babies named Leyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,662 US girls were named Leyla; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 504. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,362 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leyla ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #166 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 Leilah (4,241 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Azerbaijani and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Leyla 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 6 | #166 | — |
| Florida | 54 | #339 | #851 |
| New York | 48 | #354 | #538 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #438 | #564 |
| California | 72 | #471 | #529 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #501 | #466 |
| Texas | 63 | #508 | #684 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #517 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #533 | #911 |
| Virginia | 14 | #558 | #613 |
| Washington | 12 | #562 | #891 |
| Georgia | 19 | #573 | #1,259 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #576 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #593 | #842 |
| Maryland | 8 | #625 | #678 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #673 | #1,044 |
| Oregon | 5 | #690 | #756 |
| Illinois | 14 | #694 | #623 |
| Colorado | 7 | #750 | #559 |
| Michigan | 10 | #763 | #1,409 |
| Utah | 5 | #774 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #795 | #1,077 |
| Ohio | 11 | #849 | #1,389 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,066 | #1,179 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 478 | #611 | — | — |
| 2024 | 504 | #600 | — | — |
| 2023 | 493 | #604 | — | — |
| 2022 | 504 | #594 | — | — |
| 2021 | 440 | #672 | — | — |
| 2020 | 496 | #586 | — | — |
| 2019 | 401 | #713 | — | — |
| 2018 | 459 | #646 | — | — |
| 2017 | 485 | #620 | — | — |
| 2016 | 402 | #710 | — | — |
| 2015 | 361 | #783 | — | — |
| 2014 | 410 | #691 | — | — |
| 2013 | 447 | #626 | — | — |
| 2012 | 385 | #722 | — | — |
| 2011 | 376 | #735 | — | — |
| 2010 | 370 | #750 | — | — |
| 2009 | 389 | #741 | — | — |
| 2008 | 382 | #768 | — | — |
| 2007 | 367 | #787 | — | — |
| 2006 | 263 | #990 | — | — |
| 2005 | 245 | #999 | — | — |
| 2004 | 209 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2001 | 132 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,194 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,190 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,695 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,092 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,629 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,236 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,159 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,167 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,590 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,898 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,732 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,626 | — | — |
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).