Leylah Girl
How popular is Leylah?
#3,249 girl name in 2025
48 baby girls were named Leylah in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
Leylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,249 for girls (▲ 326 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 48 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-13% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,059 in 2015, #3,546 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (63 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,720 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 2000 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Leylah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Leila family of names ranked #182 for girls in 2025, with 1,844 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 Leylah is most popular
Babies named Leylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (61 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
Leylah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Leylah
Questions
- Is Leylah a boy or girl name?
- Leylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Leylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Leylah?
- 48 baby girls were named Leylah in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
- When was Leylah most popular?
- Leylah peaked in 2022, when 63 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,720 in 2022.
- How many people are named Leylah?
- 1,005 babies have been named Leylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,000 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Leylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Leylah was most common in Texas, at 0.1 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.