Zaila
Zaila was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,213 among girls’ names; 911 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaila?
#2,213 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaila rose from #4,225 in 2015 to #2,213 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 52.3 per million.
101 babies in 2023, the peak
Zaila peaked in 2023, when 101 girls were given it, #1,964 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,213 | 52.3 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,748 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,964 | 62.9 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,423 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,714 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,838 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,916 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,848 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,916 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,705 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,225 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,544 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,698 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,549 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,239 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,205 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,329 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,740 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,509 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,230 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,880 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,702 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,745 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,385 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,482 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,133 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaila 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 Zaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaila, and how old are they?
An estimated 905 Americans named Zaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 422 people named Zaila (422 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 491 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Zaila?
Zaila is a less common spelling of Zayla: SSA has recorded 911 Zaila and 3,949 Zayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,358 babies since 1880, Zaila is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 534 babies (16%), the second most given that year.
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 Zaila
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 Zaila and names like it
- Compare Zaila and ZaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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