Laela
Laela was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,643 among girls’ names; 1,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Laela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laela?
#5,643 among girls’ names, 2025
Laela fell from #3,458 in 2015 to #5,643 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 13.7 per million.
111 babies in 2009, the peak
Laela peaked in 2009, when 111 girls were given it, #1,897 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,643 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,863 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,088 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,446 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,771 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,613 | 40.2 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,199 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,987 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,117 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,817 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,458 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,794 | 34.7 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,200 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,251 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,993 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,071 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,897 | 60.4 |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,056 | 52.9 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,047 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,414 | 41.0 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,843 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,609 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,784 | 30.6 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,767 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,454 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,238 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,181 | 5.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,517 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,676 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,679 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,591 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,327 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,160 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,098 | 3.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,612 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,575 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,110 | 3.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,927 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laela, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,685 Americans ever recorded as Laela. The median Laela alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,278 people named Laela (1,278 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 655 |
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 Laela born?
The states with the most babies named Laela are Texas, California and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 154 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Laela 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 193,644 babies since 1880, Laela is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 6,659 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Laela
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 Laela and names like it
- Compare Laela and LaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaela peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laela since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Laela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.