Meaning not yet researched.
Zayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 248 in 2025. Its best rank was #801 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #801 in 2023; #1,012 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,012 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #801.
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Zayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 248 girls in 2025. Peak: #801 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 351 (2023).
In 2025, 248 US girls were named Zayla, making it the 1,012th most common girls’ name of the year, down 23 places from #989 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 262 girls named Zayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #801, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 351. For comparison, it was #1,381 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayla in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 8 babies. In all, 3,949 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,734 babies named Zayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,534 US girls were named Zayla; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 351. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,481 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zayla ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #248 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaila (911 babies since 1880), Sayla (896 babies since 1880) and Zaylah (852 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saylah, Zailah and Zaela 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: Saylah (403), Zailah (239), Zaela (199), Saila (108), Zaelah (71), Saela (41), Zaylaa (28), Sahla (15), Zalah (12), Zalla (5), Zaiyla (5).
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 Zayla 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 7 | #248 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #544 | #889 |
| Oregon | 6 | #618 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #702 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #817 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #903 | #1,390 |
| Illinois | 10 | #925 | #1,895 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #925 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #933 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #999 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,058 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #1,061 | #1,355 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,080 | #740 |
| California | 25 | #1,084 | #1,334 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,111 | #1,470 |
| New York | 13 | #1,162 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,228 | #1,118 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,266 | #968 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,354 | #1,054 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2024 | 262 | #989 | — | — |
| 2023 | 351 | #801 | — | — |
| 2022 | 338 | #830 | — | — |
| 2021 | 289 | #922 | — | — |
| 2020 | 209 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 2019 | 217 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2018 | 223 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2017 | 208 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 2015 | 172 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2014 | 198 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #5,008 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,310 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,038 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,014 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,279 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,879 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,774 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,563 | — | — |
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).