Zylah
#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 140 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,445since 2001
Zylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zylah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,540 | 137 |
| 2024 | #1,529 | 140 |
| 2023 | #1,534 | 139 |
| 2022 | #1,648 | 128 |
| 2021 | #1,600 | 131 |
| 2020 | #1,781 | 111 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 |
| 2017 | #2,184 | 87 |
| 2016 | #2,446 | 75 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#796 · 1 in 3,835
- North Carolina#1,420 · 1 in 9,077
- Florida#1,639 · 1 in 12,280
- California#2,109 · 1 in 19,575
- Texas#2,561 · 1 in 22,839
Best ever in a state: #633 in Alabama, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| North Carolina | #1,420 | 5 | 1 in 9,077 |
| Florida | #1,639 | 7 | 1 in 12,280 |
| California | #2,109 | 10 | 1 in 19,575 |
| Texas | #2,561 | 7 | 1 in 22,839 |
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See more about Zylah
- 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)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2024 at #1,529 (140 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 54.4% of all girls named Zylah (786) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 81 | #6,091 (2009) | #12,570 |
| 2010s | 578 | #2,184 (2017) | #3,176 |
| 2020s | 786 | #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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 19,844 of them was named Zylah, which outranked 88.2% 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).
- #2,160Terra88
- #2,160Yana88
- #2,160Zailey88
- #2,184Zylah87
- #2,184Adah87
- #2,184Ashly87
- #2,184Cailyn87
- #2,200Audrie86
- #2,200Avamarie86
- #2,200Baileigh86
Tied with 15 names at #2,184; 3 shown. 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.