Zyla
Zyla was given to 271 girls in 2025, #953 among girls’ names; 2,545 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Zyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zyla?
#953 among girls’ names, 2025
Zyla rose from #2,024 in 2015 to #953 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.17 per 1,000.
295 babies in 2024, the peak
Zyla peaked in 2024, when 295 girls were given it, #900 among girls’ names. The 271 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | #953 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 295 | #900 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 253 | #1,005 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 224 | #1,110 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,159 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 161 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,359 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,985 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #2,024 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,175 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,659 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,678 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,779 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,104 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,929 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,879 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,226 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,478 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,522 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,071 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,836 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,179 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,343 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,865 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zyla 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 Zyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zyla, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,545 Americans ever recorded as Zyla. The median Zyla alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 980 people named Zyla (980 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,210 |
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 Zyla born?
The states with the most babies named Zyla are California, Texas and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,052 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,086 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,054 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #688 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 14 | #747 | 1.2× |
| New York | 13 | #1,164 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #617 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 12 | #661 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #904 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 11 | #425 | 1.1× |
Where Zyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zyla is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2000 it was given 1.2 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 Zyla 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 5,014 babies since 1880, Zyla is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 451 babies (60%), 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 Zyla
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 Zyla and names like it
- Compare Zyla and ZylahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZyla peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.