Xyla
Xyla was given to 356 girls in 2025, #763 among girls’ names; 2,346 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Xyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Xyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Xyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Xyla is “a female given name.”
/ˈzaɪ.lə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Xyla?
#763 among girls’ names, 2025
Xyla rose from #2,682 in 2015 to #763 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.22 per 1,000.
356 babies in 2025, the peak
Xyla peaked in 2025, when 356 girls were given it, #763 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 338 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 356 | #763 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 338 | #818 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 277 | #948 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 270 | #983 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 240 | #1,054 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,411 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,800 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,952 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,688 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,737 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,682 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,918 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,696 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,115 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,550 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,729 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,081 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,088 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,623 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,253 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,790 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,653 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,701 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,539 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,072 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,863 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Xyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Xyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Xyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Xyla, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,346 Americans ever recorded as Xyla. The median Xyla alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 605 people named Xyla (603 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 194 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,140 |
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 Xyla born?
The states with the most babies named Xyla are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 41 | #741 | 0.9× |
| California | 38 | #797 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 24 | #712 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #486 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 18 | #610 | 1.0× |
| New York | 17 | #946 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 14 | #707 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 12 | #689 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #902 | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #517 | 0.7× |
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 Xyla 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,577 babies since 1880, Xyla is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 356 of their 475 babies (75%), again the 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 Xyla
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 Xyla and names like it
- Compare Xyla and XyliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sXyla peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Xyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Xyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Xyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with XMost given first.