Iyla
Iyla was given to 572 girls in 2025, #525 among girls’ names; 4,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Iyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iyla?
#525 among girls’ names, 2025
Iyla rose from #1,834 in 2015 to #525 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.36 per 1,000.
572 babies in 2025, the peak
Iyla peaked in 2025, when 572 girls were given it, #525 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 532 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 572 | #525 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 532 | #568 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 496 | #601 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 428 | #685 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 349 | #805 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 289 | #909 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 244 | #1,052 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 188 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,660 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,822 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 113 | #1,834 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,884 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,313 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,922 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,442 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,055 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,980 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,588 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,523 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,484 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,040 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,714 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iyla, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,045 Americans ever recorded as Iyla. The median Iyla alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,341 people named Iyla (1,332 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 395 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,620 |
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 Iyla born?
The states with the most babies named Iyla are California, Texas and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 64 | #522 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 53 | #603 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 36 | #509 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 24 | #448 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #498 | 0.7× |
| New York | 21 | #772 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 21 | #339 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 20 | #519 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #536 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 19 | #447 | 1.1× |
Where Iyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iyla is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1929 it was given 1.5 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 Iyla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,263 babies since 1880, Iyla is the third most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 572 of their 1,181 babies (48%), the 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 Iyla
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 Iyla and names like it
- Compare Iyla and IlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIyla peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Iyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Iyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.