Wyla is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Willa, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Wyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,885 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5,885 in 1924; #11,874 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,874 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #5,885.
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Wyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,885 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 8 (2025).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Wyla, making it the 11,874th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,696 places from #17,570 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named Wyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,885, reached in 1924. The most girls given the name in a single year was 8, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wyla in 6 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 34 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 19 babies named Wyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29 US girls were named Wyla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Willa (32,848 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 Wyla 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.
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).