Bayla
Bayla was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,133 among girls’ names; 1,066 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Bayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bayla?
#3,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Bayla rose from #3,217 in 2015 to #3,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 31.7 per million.
58 babies in 2014, the peak
Bayla peaked in 2014, when 58 girls were given it, #2,928 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,133 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,586 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,994 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,391 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,736 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,552 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,459 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,741 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,704 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,016 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,217 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,928 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,410 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,101 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,458 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,365 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,748 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,191 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,970 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,371 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,386 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,776 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,814 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,169 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,453 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,243 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,292 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,662 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,265 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,676 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,674 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,118 | 5.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,954 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,067 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,121 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,650 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,771 | 3.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,613 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,880 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,297 | 2.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,413 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bayla, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,066 Americans ever recorded as Bayla. The median Bayla alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 879 people named Bayla (870 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 849 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 435 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 549 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,407 babies since 1880, Bayla is the seventh most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 518 babies (9.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Bayla
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 Bayla and names like it
- Compare Bayla and BayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Bayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.