Laylah Girl
How popular is Laylah?
#1,250 girl name in 2025
179 baby girls were named Laylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1250th most popular girl name.
Laylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,250 for girls (▼ 189 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 179 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-56% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #703 in 2015, #782 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (496 girls) |
| Highest rank | #594 in 2014 |
| First recorded | 1975 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Laylah 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 Laylah is most popular
Babies named Laylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Michigan: 0.3 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.3 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Indiana: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (189 girls)
Laylah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,065 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1990s | 52 | #8,011 |
| 2000s | 1,500 | #848 |
| 2010s | 4,104 | #594 |
| 2020s | 1,631 | #782 |
Girl names about as popular as Laylah
Questions
- Is Laylah a boy or girl name?
- Laylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Laylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Laylah?
- 179 baby girls were named Laylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1250th most popular girl name.
- When was Laylah most popular?
- Laylah peaked in 2014, when 496 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #594 in 2014.
- How many people are named Laylah?
- 7,297 babies have been named Laylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,254 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Laylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Laylah was most common in Michigan, at 0.3 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.