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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#393 · 1 in 1,688
- Nevada#451 · 1 in 1,826
- South Carolina#460 · 1 in 2,041
- Illinois#463 · 1 in 2,168
- Mississippi#485 · 1 in 1,872
Best ever in a state: #218 in Maine, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #393 | 11 | 1 in 1,688 |
| Nevada | #451 | 6 | 1 in 1,826 |
| South Carolina | #460 | 9 | 1 in 2,041 |
| Illinois | #463 | 27 | 1 in 2,168 |
| Mississippi | #485 | 6 | 1 in 1,872 |
| Arizona | #490 | 14 | 1 in 2,207 |
| New Jersey | #500 | 15 | 1 in 2,477 |
| Wisconsin | #516 | 10 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Tennessee | #549 | 12 | 1 in 2,596 |
| Louisiana | #585 | 8 | 1 in 2,661 |
| Virginia | #619 | 12 | 1 in 3,123 |
| Ohio | #620 | 16 | 1 in 3,299 |
| Texas | #658 | 49 | 1 in 3,463 |
| Florida | #708 | 22 | 1 in 3,908 |
| Michigan | #722 | 11 | 1 in 3,835 |
| California | #725 | 50 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Missouri | #741 | 7 | 1 in 3,885 |
| Pennsylvania | #750 | 13 | 1 in 4,061 |
| Washington | #765 | 8 | 1 in 3,918 |
| Georgia | #776 | 12 | 1 in 4,058 |
| Indiana | #854 | 7 | 1 in 4,375 |
| Colorado | #878 | 5 | 1 in 4,679 |
| Maryland | #889 | 5 | 1 in 4,820 |
| New York | #923 | 17 | 1 in 5,372 |
| North Carolina | #984 | 8 | 1 in 5,676 |
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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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 4,408 of them was named Laylah, which outranked 96.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #697Milan408
- #701Ellen406
- #701Sloan406
- #703Laylah405
- #703Amiya405
- #703Collins405
- #703Hadassah405
- #708Danica403
- #708Elisabeth403
- #710Reyna402
Tied with 4 names at #703; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.