Laylah
Laylah was given to 179 girls in 2025, #1,254 among girls’ names; 7,297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,240 Americans named Laylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laylah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laylah is “a female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila.”
Rare spelling variant of Leila.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laylah?
#1,254 among girls’ names, 2025
Laylah fell from #706 in 2015 to #1,254 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.11 per 1,000.
496 babies in 2014, the peak
Laylah peaked in 2014, when 496 girls were given it, #595 among girls’ names. The 179 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 235 | #1,063 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 261 | #983 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 294 | #921 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 315 | #866 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 347 | #785 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 334 | #818 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 352 | #776 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 391 | #730 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 434 | #673 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 405 | #706 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 496 | #595 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 446 | #630 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 458 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 411 | #685 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 377 | #742 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 329 | #848 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 269 | #990 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 237 | #1,098 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 204 | #1,193 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,447 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,934 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,960 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,871 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,280 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,123 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,322 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,734 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,192 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,867 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laylah, and how old are they?
7,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,297 Americans ever recorded as Laylah. The median Laylah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 4,440 people named Laylah (4,428 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,714 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,460 |
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 Laylah born?
The states with the most babies named Laylah are California, Texas and Illinois, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,132 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,676 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | #892 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,468 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,001 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,036 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #790 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,623 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8 | #913 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,182 | 1.0× |
Where Laylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laylah is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1975 it was given 1.2 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 Laylah 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 193,879 babies since 1880, Laylah is the third most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 179 of their 6,631 babies (2.7%), again the third 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 Laylah
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 Laylah and names like it
- Compare Laylah and LaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaylah peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Laylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.