Zayla
Zayla was given to 248 girls in 2025, #1,012 among girls’ names; 3,949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,920 Americans named Zayla 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 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayla?
#1,012 among girls’ names, 2025
Zayla rose from #1,381 in 2015 to #1,012 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.15 per 1,000.
351 babies in 2023, the peak
Zayla peaked in 2023, when 351 girls were given it, #801 among girls’ names. The 248 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,012 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 262 | #989 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 351 | #801 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 338 | #830 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 289 | #922 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 209 | #1,139 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 217 | #1,122 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 223 | #1,107 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 208 | #1,181 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,283 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 198 | #1,234 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,478 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,315 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,536 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,287 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,727 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,870 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,701 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,213 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,493 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 24 | #5,003 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,305 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,032 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,008 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,274 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,557 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayla, and how old are they?
3,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,949 Americans ever recorded as Zayla. The median Zayla alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,838 people named Zayla (1,832 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 866 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,040 |
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 Zayla born?
The states with the most babies named Zayla are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,061 | 1.1× |
| California | 25 | #1,084 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,111 | 0.9× |
| New York | 13 | #1,162 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #903 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 10 | #925 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #702 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 8 | #817 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #544 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 8 | #933 | 0.3× |
Where Zayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayla is most over-represented in Texas: since 1994 it was given 1.1 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 Zayla 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 13,065 babies since 1880, Zayla is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 248 of their 777 babies (32%), 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 Zayla
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 Zayla and names like it
- Compare Zayla and ZayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayla peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.