Leyla — #601 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Leyla

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,077 babies named Leyla between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leyla currently holds the #601 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 503 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leyla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,094 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Leyla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,848 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Leyla in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leyla 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 10,077 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.