Lylah
#584 for girls in 2025, 503 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 556 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,547since 1916
Lylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Lylah 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 | #584 | 503 |
| 2024 | #544 | 556 |
| 2023 | #603 | 493 |
| 2022 | #581 | 514 |
| 2021 | #581 | 522 |
| 2020 | #594 | 489 |
| 2019 | #635 | 463 |
| 2018 | #633 | 471 |
| 2017 | #641 | 460 |
| 2016 | #694 | 418 |
| 2015 | #629 | 453 |
| 2014 | #615 | 469 |
| 2013 | #640 | 440 |
| 2012 | #633 | 450 |
| 2011 | #642 | 445 |
| 2010 | #761 | 359 |
| 2009 | #827 | 341 |
| 2008 | #1,265 | 197 |
| 2007 | #1,510 | 153 |
| 2006 | #2,229 | 86 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lylah! It came in at #3,919, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lylah is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#422 · 1 in 1,676
- Louisiana#499 · 1 in 2,187
- Connecticut#512 · 1 in 2,442
- Ohio#522 · 1 in 2,876
- Tennessee#542 · 1 in 2,667
Best ever in a state: #144 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #422 | 9 | 1 in 1,676 |
| Louisiana | #499 | 9 | 1 in 2,187 |
| Connecticut | #512 | 5 | 1 in 2,442 |
| Ohio | #522 | 18 | 1 in 2,876 |
| Tennessee | #542 | 11 | 1 in 2,667 |
| Missouri | #587 | 9 | 1 in 3,038 |
| Pennsylvania | #596 | 16 | 1 in 3,307 |
| Massachusetts | #605 | 8 | 1 in 3,195 |
| Michigan | #608 | 13 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Arizona | #616 | 11 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Colorado | #677 | 7 | 1 in 3,265 |
| California | #678 | 55 | 1 in 3,836 |
| Indiana | #718 | 8 | 1 in 3,790 |
| Illinois | #722 | 16 | 1 in 3,801 |
| South Carolina | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,536 |
| Minnesota | #736 | 6 | 1 in 4,044 |
| Texas | #736 | 39 | 1 in 4,093 |
| Washington | #738 | 8 | 1 in 3,790 |
| Oklahoma | #749 | 5 | 1 in 3,383 |
| Wisconsin | #847 | 5 | 1 in 4,694 |
| New York | #930 | 17 | 1 in 5,473 |
| North Carolina | #1,070 | 7 | 1 in 6,421 |
| Florida | #1,073 | 12 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Georgia | #1,174 | 7 | 1 in 6,852 |
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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 Lylah
- 40 spots since 2024 (#544 → #584)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#594 → #584)
- 45 spots since 2015 (#629 → #584)
- Biggest jump: 438 spots in 2009 (#1,265 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 65 spots in 2016 (#629 → #694)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2024 at #544 (556 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,914 girls born in 2024 were named Lylah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,195 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 51.8% of all girls named Lylah (4,428) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 12 | #3,919 (1916) | #4,085 |
| 1920s | 26 | #3,097 (1920) | #4,207 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,218 (1933) | #4,218 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,292 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 30 | #5,896 (1999) | #6,500 |
| 2000s | 964 | #827 (2009) | #3,211 |
| 2010s | 4,428 | #615 (2014) | #652 |
| 2020s | 3,077 | #544 (2024) | #581 |
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.
Lylah in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 4,952 of them was named Lylah, which outranked 96.2% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).