Girls' name · since 2005
Vayla
Vayla has 314 recorded births since 2005 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #15,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,892 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 314
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
Vayla currently ranks #3892 among girls' names in America, with 314 babies recorded since 2005.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vayla has been recorded 314 times among girls since 2005, currently ranked #3892 nationally and more common than 77% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2025.
- #15,535 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #3,892 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 314 born since 2005
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vayla ranks #15,535 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #3,892 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 314 born since 2005, peaking in the 2020s.
- #15,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,892 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 314
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
Vayla's 314 recorded births place it above 78.52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Vayla compares
314 46th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Vayla's all-time total is 16% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Vayla | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 314 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 38 | 21 | 19,840 |
Vayla's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Vayla splits its recorded history at 2016: 71% of all births land in the more recent half, 29% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2005 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 38 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Vayla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 38
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Vayla by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (149 births, 47% of the file).
2020s was Vayla's strongest decade.
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Vayla births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 20
2000s
20 births
- 2010s
2010s
145 births
- 2020s
2020s
149 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 149 births (47% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2005–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Vayla draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.