Zaylah

#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 71 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
852
since 2002

Zaylah over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002girlsat 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#3,34246
2024#2,60767
2023#2,49471
2022#2,75662
2021#2,58667
2020#2,93155
2019#3,22249
2018#3,20150
2017#3,30548
2016#3,18251
2015#2,73664
2014#3,36947
2013#3,36747
2012#4,70730
2011#6,14821
2010#6,18221
2009#9,97511
2008#8,10915
2007#9,00713
2006#13,6067
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five girls were named Zaylah! It came in at #15,432, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002–2005, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zaylah is popular in 2002

No state had 5 or more girls named Zaylah in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zaylah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 735 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #3,342)
  • 411 spots since 2020 (#2,931 → #3,342)
  • 606 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #3,342)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2023 at #2,494 (71 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 22,600
  • Highest: 1 in 22,600 girls born in 2023 were named Zaylah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 50.2% of all girls named Zaylah (428) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s56#8,109 (2008)#12,038
2010s428#2,736 (2015)#3,942
2020s368#2,494 (2023)#2,786

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.

Zaylah in 2002

girls
#15,432
5 births · 1 in 359,376 girls

Top girls' names in 2002

  1. #1Emily24,470
  2. #2Madison21,774
  3. #3Hannah18,828
  4. #4Emma16,558
  5. #5Alexis15,636
  6. #6Ashley15,344
  7. #7Abigail15,303
  8. #8Sarah14,779
  9. #9Samantha14,671
  10. #10Olivia14,631
  11. #15,432Zaylah5
More about 2002

girls

1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 359,376 of them was named Zaylah, which outranked 14.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zaylah
  1. #13,595Zuly6
  2. #13,595Zyaira6
  3. #13,595Zyan6
  4. #15,432Zaylah5
  5. #15,432Aaja5
  6. #15,432Aajaylah5
  7. #15,432Aakira5

Tied with 2,654 names at #15,432; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,168Cadence#2,126 → #958
  2. ↑ 949Lisbeth#1,573 → #624
  3. ↑ 710Ashanti#825 → #115
  4. ↑ 464Elle#1,076 → #612
  5. ↑ 412Nyla#865 → #453
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,141Citlalli#609 → #1,750
  2. ↓ 748Nallely#772 → #1,520
  3. ↓ 617Dafne#967 → #1,584
  4. ↓ 582Beyonce#700 → #1,282
  5. ↓ 540Mikaila#928 → #1,468

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

See the top 100 for 2002 →