Laylah
#1,250 for girls in 2025, 179 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 496 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,297since 1975
Laylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Laylah has never cracked the top 500 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 | #1,250 | 179 |
| 2024 | #1,061 | 235 |
| 2023 | #983 | 261 |
| 2022 | #919 | 294 |
| 2021 | #866 | 315 |
| 2020 | #782 | 347 |
| 2019 | #818 | 334 |
| 2018 | #775 | 352 |
| 2017 | #728 | 391 |
| 2016 | #672 | 434 |
| 2015 | #703 | 405 |
| 2014 | #594 | 496 |
| 2013 | #628 | 446 |
| 2012 | #622 | 458 |
| 2011 | #684 | 411 |
| 2010 | #739 | 377 |
| 2009 | #848 | 329 |
| 2008 | #989 | 269 |
| 2007 | #1,095 | 237 |
| 2006 | #1,188 | 204 |
| 2005 | #1,444 | 147 |
| 2004 | #1,925 | 97 |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Laylah! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Laylah is popular in 1975
No state had 5 or more girls named Laylah in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Laylah
- 189 spots since 2024 (#1,061 → #1,250)
- 468 spots since 2020 (#782 → #1,250)
- 547 spots since 2015 (#703 → #1,250)
- Biggest jump: 141 spots in 2009 (#989 → #848)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2015 (#594 → #703)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2014 at #594 (496 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2008–2023
- Highest: 1 in 3,602 girls born in 2014 were named Laylah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,979 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.2% of all girls named Laylah (4,104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #9,067 (1975) | #9,067 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,422 (1984) | #10,422 |
| 1990s | 52 | #8,016 (1998) | #9,470 |
| 2000s | 1,500 | #848 (2009) | #1,963 |
| 2010s | 4,104 | #594 (2014) | #696 |
| 2020s | 1,631 | #782 (2020) | #977 |
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.
Laylah in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 291,572 of them was named Laylah, which outranked 14.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,551 names at #9,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.