Maila Girl
How popular is Maila?
#3,576 girl name in 2025
42 baby girls were named Maila in the US in 2025, making it the 3576th most popular girl name.
Maila popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,576 for girls (▼ 117 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 42 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+180% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #7,610 in 2015, #3,498 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (70 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,530 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1974 |
| 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 |
Maila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Mayla family of names ranked #1,017 for girls in 2025 (#1,057 the year before), with 197 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mayla | 115 | 58% |
| Maila | 42 | 21% |
| Maylah | 31 | 16% |
| Mailah | 9 | 5% |
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 Maila is most popular
Babies named Maila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 1.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Maila by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #8,773 |
| 1980s | 18 | #8,315 |
| 1990s | 60 | #8,074 |
| 2000s | 131 | #6,590 |
| 2010s | 238 | #4,652 |
| 2020s | 302 | #2,530 |
Girl names about as popular as Maila
Questions
- Is Maila a boy or girl name?
- Maila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maila were girls.
- How popular is the name Maila?
- 42 baby girls were named Maila in the US in 2025, making it the 3576th most popular girl name.
- When was Maila most popular?
- Maila peaked in 2022, when 70 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,530 in 2022.
- How many people are named Maila?
- 759 babies have been named Maila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 754 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Maila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maila was most common in Hawaii, at 1.1 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.