Layla
#36 for girls in 2025, 5,338 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 6,523 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 20 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 129,136since 1950
Layla over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #36 | 5,338 | — | |
| 2024 | #37 | 5,325 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #30 | 5,703 | — | |
| 2022 | #29 | 6,096 | — | |
| 2021 | #24 | 6,356 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #24 | 6,228 | — | |
| 2019 | #23 | 6,523 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #27 | 6,512 | — | |
| 2017 | #26 | 6,335 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #30 | 6,300 | — | |
| 2015 | #30 | 6,348 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #29 | 6,466 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #30 | 6,490 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #31 | 6,279 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #35 | 6,088 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #36 | 5,901 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #45 | 5,212 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #55 | 4,931 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #85 | 3,903 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #100 | 3,362 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #144 | 2,384 | — | |
| 2004 | #167 | 2,012 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #195 | 1,687 | — | |
| 2002 | #291 | 1,073 | — | |
| 2001 | #328 | 947 | — | |
| 2000 | #407 | 698 | — | |
| 1999 | #654 | 351 | — | |
| 1998 | #859 | 247 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,013 | 190 | — | |
| 1996 | #913 | 215 | — | |
| 1995 | #832 | 235 | — | |
| 1994 | #872 | 224 | — | |
| 1993 | #682 | 320 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,085 | 166 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,453 | 109 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,247 | 132 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,506 | 95 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,320 | 109 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,446 | 90 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,136 | 127 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,505 | 81 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,184 | 111 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,373 | 87 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,178 | 116 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,227 | 106 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,083 | 130 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,061 | 130 | — | |
| 1978 | #976 | 142 | — | |
| 1977 | #746 | 206 | — | |
| 1976 | #800 | 174 | — | |
| 1975 | #741 | 194 | — | |
| 1974 | #757 | 185 | — | |
| 1973 | #851 | 151 | — | |
| 1972 | #972 | 124 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
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| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
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| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Layla! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1954, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Layla is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Delaware#11 · 1 in 94
- South Carolina#12 · 1 in 149
- West Virginia#13 · 1 in 107
- Maryland#15 · 1 in 165
- Alabama#16 · 1 in 176
Best ever in a state: #9 in New Mexico, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #11 | 25 | 1 in 94 |
| South Carolina | #12 | 116 | 1 in 149 |
| West Virginia | #13 | 51 | 1 in 107 |
| Maryland | #15 | 135 | 1 in 165 |
| Alabama | #16 | 106 | 1 in 176 |
| Virginia | #16 | 190 | 1 in 180 |
| Michigan | #18 | 198 | 1 in 191 |
| North Carolina | #18 | 227 | 1 in 192 |
| Kentucky | #20 | 103 | 1 in 164 |
| Ohio | #20 | 238 | 1 in 201 |
| Indiana | #21 | 149 | 1 in 188 |
| New Mexico | #22 | 35 | 1 in 147 |
| Wisconsin | #22 | 111 | 1 in 187 |
| Arkansas | #23 | 58 | 1 in 178 |
| Georgia | #23 | 192 | 1 in 232 |
| Mississippi | #23 | 57 | 1 in 178 |
| Pennsylvania | #23 | 248 | 1 in 195 |
| South Dakota | #24 | 20 | 1 in 132 |
| Texas | #24 | 658 | 1 in 232 |
| California | #25 | 743 | 1 in 234 |
| Florida | #25 | 372 | 1 in 216 |
| Louisiana | #25 | 86 | 1 in 215 |
| New York | #25 | 361 | 1 in 220 |
| Tennessee | #25 | 143 | 1 in 212 |
| Illinois | #26 | 234 | 1 in 208 |
| Oklahoma | #26 | 74 | 1 in 200 |
| Missouri | #27 | 114 | 1 in 215 |
| Wyoming | #30 | 9 | 1 in 95 |
| Nevada | #31 | 52 | 1 in 187 |
| Arizona | #32 | 118 | 1 in 234 |
| Connecticut | #32 | 63 | 1 in 179 |
| Kansas | #32 | 57 | 1 in 201 |
| Colorado | #33 | 93 | 1 in 232 |
| District of Columbia | #34 | 17 | 1 in 172 |
| Nebraska | #34 | 38 | 1 in 187 |
| Iowa | #35 | 55 | 1 in 209 |
| Rhode Island | #35 | 19 | 1 in 137 |
| Massachusetts | #36 | 114 | 1 in 209 |
| New Jersey | #38 | 144 | 1 in 242 |
| Oregon | #38 | 62 | 1 in 211 |
| Maine | #44 | 19 | 1 in 168 |
| Washington | #47 | 105 | 1 in 277 |
| New Hampshire | #52 | 20 | 1 in 173 |
| Minnesota | #54 | 79 | 1 in 274 |
| Hawaii | #55 | 12 | 1 in 206 |
| Idaho | #55 | 26 | 1 in 235 |
| Alaska | #64 | 9 | 1 in 212 |
| Utah | #67 | 52 | 1 in 310 |
| North Dakota | #74 | 12 | 1 in 233 |
| Montana | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Layla
- 1 spot since 2024 (#37 → #36)
- 12 spots since 2020 (#24 → #36)
- 6 spots since 2015 (#30 → #36)
- Biggest jump: 1,029 spots in 1972 (#2,001 → #972)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 1978 (#746 → #976)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2019 at #23 (6,523 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 257 girls born in 2019 were named Layla (0.39%)
- Latest: 1 in 301 girls born in 2025 (0.33%)
- 49.0% of all girls named Layla (63,242) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,315 (1950) | #5,047 |
| 1960s | 24 | #4,300 (1967) | #5,249 |
| 1970s | 1,355 | #741 (1975) | #1,527 |
| 1980s | 1,052 | #1,083 (1980) | #1,296 |
| 1990s | 2,189 | #654 (1999) | #961 |
| 2000s | 26,209 | #45 (2009) | #182 |
| 2010s | 63,242 | #23 (2019) | #30 |
| 2020s | 35,046 | #24 (2021) | #30 |
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.
Layla in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 260 of them was named Layla, which outranked 99.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.