Zaila Girl
How popular is Zaila?
#2,194 girl name in 2025
84 baby girls were named Zaila in the US in 2025, making it the 2194th most popular girl name.
Zaila popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,194 for girls (▲ 528 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 84 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+140% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,143 in 2015, #3,777 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (101 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,946 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 2000 |
| 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 |
Zaila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zayla family of names ranked #685 for girls in 2025 (#677 the year before), with 391 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 Zaila is most popular
Babies named Zaila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (50 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Illinois: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Zaila by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zaila
Questions
- Is Zaila a boy or girl name?
- Zaila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zaila were girls.
- How popular is the name Zaila?
- 84 baby girls were named Zaila in the US in 2025, making it the 2194th most popular girl name.
- When was Zaila most popular?
- Zaila peaked in 2023, when 101 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,946 in 2023.
- How many people are named Zaila?
- 911 babies have been named Zaila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 907 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Zaila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zaila was most common in California, 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.