Zylah

#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births

Peak · girls
2024 · 140 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,445
since 2001

Zylah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zylah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202010girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#1,540137
2024#1,529140
2023#1,534139
2022#1,648128
2021#1,600131
2020#1,781111
2019#2,40074
2018#2,25481
2017#2,18487
2016#2,44675
2015#3,05955
2014#2,78162
2013#3,91838
2012#3,64443
2011#4,68130
2010#4,39733
2009#6,09122
2008#8,10915
2007#12,6768
2006#12,4208
2005#14,5026
2004#12,7617
2003#15,7845
2002#15,4325
2001#15,3525
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First appearance
2001

The first year at least five girls were named Zylah! It came in at #15,352, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2001–2005, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Zylah is popular in 2010

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #3,155 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 35,167 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedALGeorgia: #1,479 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 9,593 girlsGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Zylah, so not publishedTXFlorida: #1,744 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 13,264 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Georgia#1,479 · 1 in 9,593
  2. Florida#1,744 · 1 in 13,264
  3. California#3,155 · 1 in 35,167

Best ever in a state: #633 in Alabama, 2025.

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Georgia#1,47951 in 9,593
Florida#1,74461 in 13,264
California#3,15561 in 35,167
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See more about Zylah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 11 spots since 2024 (#1,529 → #1,540)
  • 241 spots since 2020 (#1,781 → #1,540)
  • 1,519 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #1,540)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2001
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,529 (140 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 11,544
  • Highest: 1 in 11,544 girls born in 2023 were named Zylah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,529 in 2024, was only 1 in 11,573 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 54.4% of all girls named Zylah (786) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s81#6,091 (2009)#12,570
2010s578#2,184 (2017)#3,176
2020s786#1,529 (2024)#1,605

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.

Zylah in 2010

girls
#4,397
33 births · 1 in 53,867 girls

Top girls' names in 2010

  1. #1Isabella22,936
  2. #2Sophia20,656
  3. #3Emma17,366
  4. #4Olivia17,040
  5. #5Ava15,444
  6. #6Emily14,281
  7. #7Abigail14,257
  8. #8Madison13,196
  9. #9Chloe11,765
  10. #10Mia10,650
  11. #4,397Zylah33
More about 2010

girls

1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 53,867 of them was named Zylah, which outranked 77.8% 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).

Ranked beside Zylah
  1. #4,306Zari34
  2. #4,306Zoriah34
  3. #4,306Zya34
  4. #4,397Zylah33
  5. #4,397Aadya33
  6. #4,397Aaryn33
  7. #4,397Ailee33
  8. #4,494Abigal32
  9. #4,494Addelynn32
  10. #4,494Airam32

Tied with 96 names at #4,397; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2009
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,433Tenley#2,892 → #459
  2. ↑ 2,126Elin#2,852 → #726
  3. ↑ 664Jordynn#1,353 → #689
  4. ↑ 623Kynlee#1,509 → #886
  5. ↑ 513Farrah#1,063 → #550
Fallers
  1. ↓ 502Calleigh#834 → #1,336
  2. ↓ 491Marely#851 → #1,342
  3. ↓ 477Analia#331 → #808
  4. ↓ 417Destiney#900 → #1,317
  5. ↓ 326Dayanara#810 → #1,136

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

See the top 100 for 2010 →