Meaning not yet researched.
Leylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,742 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,742 in 2022; #3,277 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,742.
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Leylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,742 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 63 (2023).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Leylah, making it the 3,277th most common girls’ name of the year, up 337 places from #3,614 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 43 girls named Leylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,742, reached in 2022. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,073 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leylah in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 8 babies. In all, 1,005 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 501 babies named Leylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 523 US girls were named Leylah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Lyla (49,299 babies since 1880), Lela (43,073 babies since 1880) and Leola (28,181 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. 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 Leylah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,831 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,259 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,707 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,621 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,949 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,862 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,350 | — | — |
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).