Laila Girl
How popular is Laila?
#413 girl name in 2025
755 baby girls were named Laila in the US in 2025, making it the 413th most popular girl name.
Laila popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #413 for girls (▼ 42 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 755 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-60% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #170 in 2015, #227 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2008 (2,414 girls) |
| Highest rank | #135 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1884 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Laila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Layla family of names ranked #35 for girls in 2025 (#31 the year before), with 6,403 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Laila is most popular
Babies named Laila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 2.6 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Mississippi: 1.6 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.2 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Louisiana: 1.1 per 1,000 (98 girls)
- Virginia: 1.1 per 1,000 (185 girls)
Laila by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #851 |
| 1890s | 10 | #1,437 |
| 1900s | 17 | #1,592 |
| 1910s | 175 | #1,344 |
| 1920s | 177 | #1,476 |
| 1930s | 107 | #2,160 |
| 1940s | 89 | #2,351 |
| 1950s | 136 | #2,362 |
| 1960s | 220 | #2,190 |
| 1970s | 474 | #1,586 |
| 1980s | 694 | #1,459 |
| 1990s | 1,098 | #1,157 |
| 2000s | 14,446 | #135 |
| 2010s | 19,659 | #140 |
| 2020s | 6,175 | #227 |
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Questions
- Is Laila a boy or girl name?
- Laila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Laila were girls.
- How popular is the name Laila?
- 755 baby girls were named Laila in the US in 2025, making it the 413th most popular girl name.
- When was Laila most popular?
- Laila peaked in 2008, when 2,414 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #135 in 2009.
- How many people are named Laila?
- 43,507 babies have been named Laila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 42,644 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Laila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Laila was most common in District of Columbia, at 2.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.