Aylah
Aylah was given to 170 girls in 2025, #1,310 among girls’ names; 2,332 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Aylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aylah?
#1,310 among girls’ names, 2025
Aylah rose from #2,215 in 2015 to #1,310 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
213 babies in 2021, the peak
Aylah peaked in 2021, when 213 girls were given it, #1,149 among girls’ names. The 170 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,310 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 173 | #1,326 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 186 | #1,244 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 183 | #1,292 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 213 | #1,149 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 148 | #1,456 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,865 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,663 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,133 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,000 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,215 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,375 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,034 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,984 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,395 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,733 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,898 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,433 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,540 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,022 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,619 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,929 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,605 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,732 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,259 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,352 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,927 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,979 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aylah, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,332 Americans ever recorded as Aylah. The median Aylah alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,075 people named Aylah (1,071 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aylah born?
The states with the most babies named Aylah are California, Texas and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 29 | #952 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,468 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 12 | #751 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,242 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,453 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,127 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,088 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #933 | 0.4× |
| New Mexico | 6 | #261 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #897 | 1.0× |
Where Aylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aylah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1988 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aylah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aylah?
Aylah is a less common spelling of Ayla: SSA has recorded 2,332 Aylah and 38,040 Ayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 71,731 babies since 1880, Aylah is the fifth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 4,224 babies (4.0%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aylah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aylah and names like it
- Compare Aylah and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAylah peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Aylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.