Meaning not yet researched.
Zaylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,516 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,516 in 2023; #3,385 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zaylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,385 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,516.
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Zaylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,516 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 71 (2023).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Zaylah, making it the 3,385th most common girls’ name of the year, down 749 places from #2,636 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 67 girls named Zaylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,516, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 71. For comparison, it was #2,772 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaylah in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 5 babies. In all, 852 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 428 babies named Zaylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 566 US girls were named Zaylah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zayla (3,949 babies since 1880), Salah (1,185 babies since 1880), Zaila (911 babies since 1880) and Sayla (896 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 Zaylah 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 | 46 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,833 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,332 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,377 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,665 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,520 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,533 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,134 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,804 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #18,063 | — | — |
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).