Lailah
- #1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 451 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,900since 1981
Lailah over time
Rank among girls' names. Lailah has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,592 | 131 |
| 2024 | #1,105 | 221 |
| 2023 | #1,124 | 218 |
| 2022 | #1,304 | 181 |
| 2021 | #1,191 | 204 |
| 2020 | #1,046 | 240 |
| 2019 | #960 | 274 |
| 2018 | #815 | 333 |
| 2017 | #794 | 345 |
| 2016 | #708 | 402 |
| 2015 | #697 | 408 |
| 2014 | #695 | 406 |
| 2013 | #683 | 414 |
| 2012 | #702 | 400 |
| 2011 | #702 | 396 |
| 2010 | #650 | 451 |
| 2009 | #778 | 364 |
| 2008 | #895 | 310 |
| 2007 | #1,036 | 255 |
| 2006 | #1,250 | 193 |
| 2005 | #1,290 | 173 |
| 2004 | #1,387 | 150 |
| 2003 | #1,498 | 130 |
| 2002 | #2,018 | 86 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lailah! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lailah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#729 · 1 in 3,576
- Georgia#1,075 · 1 in 5,651
- Michigan#1,210 · 1 in 7,146
- Ohio#1,438 · 1 in 9,454
- New York#1,526 · 1 in 9,791
Best ever in a state: #210 in Mississippi, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #729 | 13 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Georgia | #1,075 | 8 | 1 in 5,651 |
| Michigan | #1,210 | 5 | 1 in 7,146 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| New York | #1,526 | 8 | 1 in 9,791 |
| Florida | #1,545 | 8 | 1 in 10,845 |
| California | #1,830 | 11 | 1 in 14,702 |
| Texas | #1,902 | 11 | 1 in 14,595 |
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See more about Lailah
- 546 spots since 2020 (#1,046 → #1,592)
- Biggest jump: 141 spots in 2008
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2019
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2010 at #650 (451 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2008–2019
- Highest: 1 in 3,941 girls born in 2010 were named Lailah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,269 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.5% of all girls named Lailah (3,829) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 17 | #8,224 (1982) | #9,987 |
| 1990s | 94 | #5,219 (1999) | #9,561 |
| 2000s | 1,765 | #778 (2009) | #1,622 |
| 2010s | 3,829 | #650 (2010) | #741 |
| 2020s | 1,195 | #1,046 (2020) | #1,227 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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