Leyla
#611 for girls in 2025, 478 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 496 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,564since 1957
Leyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Leyla 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 | #611 | 478 |
| 2024 | #599 | 504 |
| 2023 | #603 | 493 |
| 2022 | #594 | 504 |
| 2021 | #671 | 440 |
| 2020 | #586 | 496 |
| 2019 | #711 | 401 |
| 2018 | #646 | 459 |
| 2017 | #619 | 485 |
| 2016 | #708 | 402 |
| 2015 | #782 | 361 |
| 2014 | #690 | 410 |
| 2013 | #626 | 447 |
| 2012 | #721 | 385 |
| 2011 | #735 | 376 |
| 2010 | #750 | 370 |
| 2009 | #741 | 389 |
| 2008 | #768 | 382 |
| 2007 | #784 | 367 |
| 2006 | #988 | 263 |
| 2005 | #994 | 245 |
| 2004 | #1,095 | 209 |
| 2003 | #1,235 | 170 |
| 2002 | #1,363 | 142 |
| 2001 | #1,427 | 132 |
| 2000 | #1,674 | 105 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 |
| 1997 | #2,328 | 57 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 |
| 1995 | #2,623 | 47 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 |
| 1992 | #3,091 | 37 |
| 1991 | #3,159 | 35 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 |
| 1973 | #1,714 | 52 |
| 1972 | #1,578 | 58 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leyla! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Leyla is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#236 · 1 in 703
- Florida#559 · 1 in 3,280
- New Jersey#642 · 1 in 3,783
- Wisconsin#734 · 1 in 4,976
- Arizona#862 · 1 in 4,917
Best ever in a state: #150 in Rhode Island, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #236 | 5 | 1 in 703 |
| Florida | #559 | 25 | 1 in 3,280 |
| New Jersey | #642 | 11 | 1 in 3,783 |
| Wisconsin | #734 | 5 | 1 in 4,976 |
| Arizona | #862 | 7 | 1 in 4,917 |
| Michigan | #870 | 8 | 1 in 6,030 |
| New York | #878 | 17 | 1 in 5,706 |
| North Carolina | #982 | 7 | 1 in 6,350 |
| Texas | #1,012 | 24 | 1 in 6,637 |
| California | #1,019 | 31 | 1 in 7,382 |
| Virginia | #1,052 | 5 | 1 in 7,396 |
| Georgia | #1,229 | 6 | 1 in 8,421 |
| Illinois | #1,255 | 7 | 1 in 9,785 |
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See more about Leyla
- 12 spots since 2024 (#599 → #611)
- 25 spots since 2020 (#586 → #611)
- 171 spots since 2015 (#782 → #611)
- Biggest jump: 204 spots in 2007 (#988 → #784)
- Biggest drop: 92 spots in 2015 (#690 → #782)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2020 at #586 (496 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,215 girls born in 2024 were named Leyla (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,362 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #586 in 2020, was only 1 in 3,259 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.8% of all girls named Leyla (4,096) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23 | #4,031 (1959) | #4,879 |
| 1960s | 73 | #3,549 (1965) | #5,223 |
| 1970s | 354 | #1,578 (1972) | #2,675 |
| 1980s | 243 | #2,901 (1982) | #3,599 |
| 1990s | 456 | #1,893 (1999) | #2,841 |
| 2000s | 2,404 | #741 (2009) | #1,107 |
| 2010s | 4,096 | #619 (2017) | #699 |
| 2020s | 2,915 | #586 (2020) | #611 |
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.
Leyla in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 8,786 of them was named Leyla, which outranked 94.2% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).