Girls' name · since 2012
Ilayah
Ilayah has 70 recorded births since 2012 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #31,105 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,954 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 70
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
70 babies have been named Ilayah since 2012, making it today's #9954 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ilayah has been recorded 70 times among girls since 2012, currently ranked #9954 nationally and more common than 42% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #31,105 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,954 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 70 born since 2012
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ilayah ranks #31,105 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,954 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 70 born since 2012, peaking in the 2020s.
- #31,105 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,954 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 70
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ilayah's 70 recorded births place it above 56.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Ilayah compares
70 20th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Ilayah's all-time total is 81% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Ilayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 70 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Ilayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Ilayah splits its recorded history at 2020: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2018 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Ilayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Ilayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (38 births, 54% of the file).
2020s was Ilayah's strongest decade.
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Ilayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s
2020s
38 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 38 births (54% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ilayah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.