Laela

#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births

Peak · girls
2009 · 111 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,685
since 1972

Laela over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Laela has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201972peak #1,889, 2009girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#5,55422
2024#3,82239
2023#4,04736
2022#3,41646
2021#3,73540
2020#2,59765
2019#3,17250
2018#2,96255
2017#3,09152
2016#2,79861
2015#3,42946
2014#2,78162
2013#2,18785
2012#2,23284
2011#1,98299
2010#2,05996
2009#1,889111
2008#2,054100
2007#2,034100
2006#2,39678
2005#2,82758
2004#2,58964
2003#2,77156
2002#3,73035
2001#3,41739
2000#4,18529
1999#8,80510
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1995#13,3865
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1992#11,7386
1991#11,5096
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First appearance
1972

The first year at least five girls were named Laela! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Laela
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,732 spots since 2024 (#3,822#5,554)
  • 2,957 spots since 2020 (#2,597#5,554)
  • 2,125 spots since 2015 (#3,429#5,554)
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1972
  • Peaked 2009 at #1,889 (111 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,551
  • Highest: 1 in 16,551 girls born in 2009 were named Laela (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.9% of all girls named Laela (690) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s11#8,292 (1972)#8,427
1980s19#8,128 (1981)#9,176
1990s47#8,132 (1996)#11,424
2000s670#1,889 (2009)#2,789
2010s690#1,982 (2011)#2,669
2020s248#2,597 (2020)#3,862

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Laela in 1972

girls
#8,292
5 births · 1 in 304,249 girls

Top girls' names in 1972

  1. #1Jennifer63,600
  2. #2Michelle29,285
  3. #3Lisa27,543
  4. #4Kimberly26,282
  5. #5Amy25,873
  6. #6Angela23,561
  7. #7Melissa22,494
  8. #8Stephanie16,890
  9. #9Heather16,320
  10. #10Nicole15,755
  11. #8,292Laela5
More about 1972

girls

1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 304,249 of them was named Laela, which outranked 14.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Laela
  1. #7,292Zerlina6
  2. #7,292Zeta6
  3. #7,292Zoann6
  4. #8,292Laela5
  5. #8,292Aarona5
  6. #8,292Abigale5
  7. #8,292Adabel5

Tied with 1,374 names at #8,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1971
Risers
  1. 5,804Camisha#6,619#815
  2. 3,921Catina#4,123#202
  3. 1,842Cherilyn#2,665#823
  4. 1,789Chasity#2,542#753
  5. 1,694Keena#2,542#848
Fallers
  1. 517Shayla#836#1,353
  2. 428Raina#798#1,226
  3. 280Kendall#742#1,022
  4. 275Alycia#951#1,226
  5. 255Charisse#727#982

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1972