Meaning not yet researched.
Zyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 271 in 2025. Its best rank was #900 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #900 in 2024; #953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#953 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #900.
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Zyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 271 girls in 2025. Peak: #900 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 295 (2024).
In 2025, 271 US girls were named Zyla, making it the 953rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 53 places from #900 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 295 girls named Zyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #900, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 295. For comparison, it was #2,024 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zyla in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 10 babies. In all, 2,545 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,416 babies named Zyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,969 US girls were named Zyla; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 295. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,931 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zyla ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #425 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zella (13,369 babies since 1880), Zylah (1,445 babies since 1880) and Sela (1,328 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cyla and Ziylah 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: Cyla (341), Ziylah (31).
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 Zyla 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 11 | #425 | — |
| Alabama | 10 | #519 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #607 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #617 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #625 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #661 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #687 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #688 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #747 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #904 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #915 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #982 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #1,002 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,039 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,051 | — |
| California | 26 | #1,052 | #2,035 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,054 | #1,832 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,082 | — |
| Texas | 26 | #1,086 | #1,802 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,133 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,164 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,209 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,636 | #1,633 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | #953 | — | — |
| 2024 | 295 | #900 | — | — |
| 2023 | 253 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 2022 | 224 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2020 | 161 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2015 | 98 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,105 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,930 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,480 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,527 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,076 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,843 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,185 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,350 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,873 | — | — |
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).