Layla — #37 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Layla

The Social Security Administration has registered 123,729 babies named Layla between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Layla currently holds the #37 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 6,518 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Layla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 63,221 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Layla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13,650 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Layla in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Layla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 123,729 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.