Xylah

#2,583 for girls in 2025, 67 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 96 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
543
since 2007

Xylah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Xylah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202007girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,58367
2024#2,36277
2023#2,03396
2022#2,99555
2021#3,15751
2020#4,54829
2019#4,07235
2018#5,45423
2017#5,66122
2016#7,23016
2015#9,48111
2014#7,63615
2013#8,13514
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2010#16,9925
2009#11,4599
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First appearance
2007

The first year at least five girls were named Xylah! It came in at #15,491, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2008, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Xylah is popular in 2007

No state had 5 or more girls named Xylah in 2007, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Xylah
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 221 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,583)
  • 1,965 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #2,583)
  • 6,898 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #2,583)
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2007
  • Peaked 2023 at #2,033 (96 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,714
  • Highest: 1 in 16,714 girls born in 2023 were named Xylah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 23,989 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 69.1% of all girls named Xylah (375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s15#11,459 (2009)#13,475
2010s153#4,072 (2019)#8,201
2020s375#2,033 (2023)#2,946

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.

Xylah in 2007

girls
#15,491
6 births · 1 in 320,436 girls

Top girls' names in 2007

  1. #1Emily19,367
  2. #2Isabella19,143
  3. #3Emma18,390
  4. #4Ava18,053
  5. #5Madison17,968
  6. #6Sophia17,031
  7. #7Olivia16,589
  8. #8Abigail15,476
  9. #9Hannah13,323
  10. #10Elizabeth13,071
  11. #15,491Xylah6
More about 2007

girls

1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 320,436 of them was named Xylah, which outranked 24.7% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Xylah
  1. #13,924Zyriana7
  2. #13,924Zyrianna7
  3. #13,924Zyrihanna7
  4. #15,491Xylah6
  5. #15,491Aahliyah6
  6. #15,491Aalaya6
  7. #15,491Aalaysia6
  8. #17,636Aahna5
  9. #17,636Aajah5
  10. #17,636Aalana5

Tied with 2,144 names at #15,491; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2006
Risers
  1. ↑ 16,568Jaslene#17,168 → #600
  2. ↑ 5,379Marely#6,125 → #746
  3. ↑ 2,556Audrina#3,264 → #708
  4. ↑ 2,506Jordin#3,090 → #584
  5. ↑ 1,358Azul#2,081 → #723
Fallers
  1. ↓ 4,216Bethzy#881 → #5,097
  2. ↓ 346Akeelah#708 → #1,054
  3. ↓ 326Tayla#926 → #1,252
  4. ↓ 312Betsy#747 → #1,059
  5. ↓ 295Shakira#780 → #1,075

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2007 →