Laela
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 111 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,685since 1972
Laela over time
Rank among girls' names. Laela has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 |
| 2013 | #2,187 | 85 |
| 2012 | #2,232 | 84 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,059 | 96 |
| 2009 | #1,889 | 111 |
| 2008 | #2,054 | 100 |
| 2007 | #2,034 | 100 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 |
| 2004 | #2,589 | 64 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
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| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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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.
Where Laela is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#1,110 · 1 in 7,124
- Pennsylvania#1,232 · 1 in 9,105
- Texas#1,395 · 1 in 9,804
- Florida#1,604 · 1 in 11,762
- California#2,627 · 1 in 27,286
Best ever in a state: #636 in Louisiana, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #1,110 | 6 | 1 in 7,124 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 9,105 |
| Texas | #1,395 | 17 | 1 in 9,804 |
| Florida | #1,604 | 7 | 1 in 11,762 |
| California | #2,627 | 8 | 1 in 27,286 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Laela
- 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)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2009 at #1,889 (111 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Laela (690) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,427 |
| 1980s | 19 | #8,128 (1981) | #9,176 |
| 1990s | 47 | #8,132 (1996) | #11,424 |
| 2000s | 670 | #1,889 (2009) | #2,789 |
| 2010s | 690 | #1,982 (2011) | #2,669 |
| 2020s | 248 | #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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 16,551 of them was named Laela, which outranked 90.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,876Leeann112
- #1,876Rain112
- #1,876Zaniah112
- #1,889Laela111
- #1,889Blessing111
- #1,889Chloie111
- #1,889Jazleen111
- #1,901Adria110
- #1,901Amarie110
- #1,901Aubrielle110
Tied with 11 names at #1,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.