Meaning not yet researched.
Lylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 503 in 2025. Its best rank was #545 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #545 in 2024; #585 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#585 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #545.
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Lylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 503 girls in 2025. Peak: #545 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 556 (2024).
In 2025, 503 US girls were named Lylah, making it the 585th most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #545 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 556 girls named Lylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #545, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 556. For comparison, it was #632 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lylah in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 8,547 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,428 babies named Lylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,889 US girls were named Lylah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 556. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,195 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lylah ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #266 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Lyla (49,299 babies since 1880), Lela (43,073 babies since 1880) and Lilah (24,664 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 Lylah 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 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 17 | #266 | #476 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #329 | #557 |
| Indiana | 20 | #352 | #501 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #414 | #645 |
| Kansas | 8 | #431 | #499 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #433 | #549 |
| Ohio | 26 | #440 | #586 |
| Colorado | 13 | #447 | #741 |
| Oregon | 8 | #462 | #503 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #464 | #600 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #479 | #693 |
| Virginia | 17 | #479 | #1,028 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #493 | #413 |
| Washington | 14 | #498 | #1,049 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #532 | #478 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #571 | #660 |
| Missouri | 10 | #578 | #592 |
| Illinois | 16 | #612 | #790 |
| Arizona | 11 | #612 | #382 |
| Michigan | 13 | #624 | #873 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #627 | #951 |
| Texas | 49 | #638 | #774 |
| Iowa | 5 | #643 | #353 |
| California | 48 | #653 | #625 |
| Florida | 22 | #753 | #638 |
| Georgia | 12 | #834 | #800 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #868 | #846 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #871 | #559 |
| New York | 17 | #932 | #837 |
| Maryland | 5 | #942 | #851 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #998 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 503 | #585 | — | — |
| 2024 | 556 | #545 | — | — |
| 2023 | 493 | #605 | — | — |
| 2022 | 514 | #583 | — | — |
| 2021 | 522 | #581 | — | — |
| 2020 | 489 | #594 | — | — |
| 2019 | 463 | #636 | — | — |
| 2018 | 471 | #634 | — | — |
| 2017 | 460 | #641 | — | — |
| 2016 | 418 | #695 | — | — |
| 2015 | 453 | #632 | — | — |
| 2014 | 469 | #615 | — | — |
| 2013 | 440 | #641 | — | — |
| 2012 | 450 | #635 | — | — |
| 2011 | 445 | #643 | — | — |
| 2010 | 359 | #763 | — | — |
| 2009 | 341 | #828 | — | — |
| 2008 | 197 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,577 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,107 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,089 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,372 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,048 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,001 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,584 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,201 | — | — |
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).