Lylah
Lylah was given to 503 girls in 2025, #585 among girls’ names; 8,547 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,450 Americans named Lylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lylah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lylah is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Rare spelling variant of Leila.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lylah?
#585 among girls’ names, 2025
Lylah rose from #632 in 2015 to #585 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.25 to 0.31 per 1,000.
556 babies in 2024, the peak
Lylah peaked in 2024, when 556 girls were given it, #545 among girls’ names. The 503 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 503 | #585 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 556 | #545 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 493 | #605 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 514 | #583 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 522 | #581 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 489 | #594 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 463 | #636 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 471 | #634 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 460 | #641 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 418 | #695 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 453 | #632 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 469 | #615 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 440 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 450 | #635 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 445 | #643 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 359 | #763 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 341 | #828 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 197 | #1,270 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,514 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,239 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,238 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,785 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,159 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,573 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,102 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,838 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,083 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,366 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,513 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,249 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,582 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,199 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lylah, and how old are they?
8,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,547 Americans ever recorded as Lylah. The median Lylah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 4,796 people named Lylah (4,791 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,210 |
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 Lylah born?
The states with the most babies named Lylah are Texas, California and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 49 | #638 | 0.9× |
| California | 48 | #653 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 26 | #440 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 22 | #753 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 20 | #352 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #571 | 1.0× |
| New York | 17 | #932 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #627 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 17 | #479 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 17 | #266 | 1.2× |
Where Lylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lylah is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1916 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 Lylah 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 165,367 babies since 1880, Lylah is the fourth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 503 of their 7,271 babies (6.9%), again the fourth 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 Lylah
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 Lylah and names like it
- Compare Lylah and LilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLylah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lylah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Lylah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.