Lailah

#1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births

Peak · girls
2010 · 451 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,900
since 1981

Lailah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Lailah has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202007peak #650, 2010girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,592131
2024#1,105221
2023#1,124218
2022#1,304181
2021#1,191204
2020#1,046240
2019#960274
2018#815333
2017#794345
2016#708402
2015#697408
2014#695406
2013#683414
2012#702400
2011#702396
2010#650451
2009#778364
2008#895310
2007#1,036255
2006#1,250193
2005#1,290173
2004#1,387150
2003#1,498130
2002#2,01886
2001#2,25971
2000#3,80833
1999#5,21920
1998#5,79917
1997#5,41718
1996#10,5677
1995#11,7836
1994#13,4305
1993#13,4425
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Lailah! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1983–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Lailah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 487 spots since 2024 (#1,105#1,592)
  • 546 spots since 2020 (#1,046#1,592)
  • 895 spots since 2015 (#697#1,592)
  • Biggest jump: 141 spots in 2008 (#1,036#895)
  • Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2019 (#815#960)
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2010 at #650 (451 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2008–2019
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,941
  • Highest: 1 in 3,941 girls born in 2010 were named Lailah (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,269 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 55.5% of all girls named Lailah (3,829) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s17#8,224 (1982)#9,987
1990s94#5,219 (1999)#9,561
2000s1,765#778 (2009)#1,622
2010s3,829#650 (2010)#741
2020s1,195#1,046 (2020)#1,227

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.

Lailah in 2007

girls
#1,036
255 births · 1 in 7,540 girls

Top girls' names in 2007

  1. #1Emily19,367
  2. #2Isabella19,143
  3. #3Emma18,390
  4. #4Ava18,053
  5. #5Madison17,968
  6. #6Sophia17,031
  7. #7Olivia16,589
  8. #8Abigail15,476
  9. #9Hannah13,323
  10. #10Elizabeth13,071
  11. #1,036Lailah255
More about 2007

girls

1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 7,540 of them was named Lailah, which outranked 95.0% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lailah
  1. #1,030Kenadie256
  2. #1,030Sandy256
  3. #1,030Yara256
  4. #1,036Lailah255
  5. #1,037Alysa254
  6. #1,037Candace254
  7. #1,037Izabel254
Biggest movers since 2006
Risers
  1. 16,568Jaslene#17,168#600
  2. 5,379Marely#6,125#746
  3. 2,556Audrina#3,264#708
  4. 2,506Jordin#3,090#584
  5. 1,358Azul#2,081#723
Fallers
  1. 4,216Bethzy#881#5,097
  2. 346Akeelah#708#1,054
  3. 326Tayla#926#1,252
  4. 312Betsy#747#1,059
  5. 295Shakira#780#1,075

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

See the top 100 for 2007