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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#347 · 1 in 1,564
- Texas#402 · 1 in 1,998
- California#417 · 1 in 2,082
- Illinois#419 · 1 in 1,984
- New York#424 · 1 in 2,046
Best ever in a state: #150 in Rhode Island, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #347 | 23 | 1 in 1,564 |
| Texas | #402 | 80 | 1 in 1,998 |
| California | #417 | 94 | 1 in 2,082 |
| Illinois | #419 | 28 | 1 in 1,984 |
| New York | #424 | 43 | 1 in 2,046 |
| Arizona | #425 | 16 | 1 in 1,879 |
| Massachusetts | #425 | 13 | 1 in 1,939 |
| Nevada | #446 | 6 | 1 in 1,806 |
| Florida | #504 | 34 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Colorado | #566 | 9 | 1 in 2,514 |
| Pennsylvania | #640 | 16 | 1 in 3,196 |
| Kentucky | #715 | 5 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Michigan | #719 | 11 | 1 in 3,752 |
| South Carolina | #744 | 5 | 1 in 3,551 |
| Georgia | #822 | 11 | 1 in 4,284 |
| North Carolina | #831 | 10 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Washington | #836 | 7 | 1 in 4,438 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Minnesota | #860 | 5 | 1 in 4,784 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Tennessee | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 6,120 |
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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 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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,560 of them was named Leyla, which outranked 96.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #616Jaylah488
- #617Kailani486
- #617Melina486
- #619Leyla485
- #619Anahi485
- #621Harlee483
- #621Jaliyah483
- #623Wynter477
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.