Rayla
Rayla was given to 135 girls in 2025, #1,569 among girls’ names; 1,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Rayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayla?
#1,569 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayla rose from #4,127 in 2015 to #1,569 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 84.0 per million.
135 babies in 2025, the peak
Rayla peaked in 2025, when 135 girls were given it, #1,569 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 113 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,569 | 84.0 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,789 | 69.7 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,609 | 81.0 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,893 | 65.2 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,718 | 73.7 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,920 | 61.9 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,423 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,995 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,377 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,571 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,127 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,429 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,790 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,806 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,029 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,933 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,670 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,911 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,275 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,339 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,392 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,151 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,508 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,348 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,796 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,480 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,129 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,526 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,191 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,982 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,582 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,479 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,526 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,898 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,494 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,723 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,431 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,997 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,538 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,290 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,815 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,030 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,123 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,677 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,818 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,870 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,995 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,814 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,743 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,261 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,962 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,238 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,090 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,349 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,423 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,208 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,676 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,306 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayla, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,590 Americans ever recorded as Rayla. The median Rayla alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 827 people named Rayla (820 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 895 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 144 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 333 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,151 babies since 1880, Rayla is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 135 of their 381 babies (35%), again the second 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 Rayla
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.
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