Laylah

#1,250 for girls in 2025, 179 births

Peak · girls
2014 · 496 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,297
since 1975

Laylah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Laylah has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #594, 2014girls
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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#1,250179
2024#1,061235
2023#983261
2022#919294
2021#866315
2020#782347
2019#818334
2018#775352
2017#728391
2016#672434
2015#703405
2014#594496
2013#628446
2012#622458
2011#684411
2010#739377
2009#848329
2008#989269
2007#1,095237
2006#1,188204
2005#1,444147
2004#1,92597
2003#1,94793
2002#2,85452
2001#3,25642
2000#4,07930
1999#10,3458
1998#8,01611
1997#8,33410
1996#9,5818
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five girls were named Laylah! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Laylah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 189 spots since 2024 (#1,061#1,250)
  • 468 spots since 2020 (#782#1,250)
  • 547 spots since 2015 (#703#1,250)
  • Biggest jump: 141 spots in 2009 (#989#848)
  • Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2015 (#594#703)
Rise & fade · girls
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2014 at #594 (496 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 16 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2008–2023
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,602
  • Highest: 1 in 3,602 girls born in 2014 were named Laylah (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 8,979 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 56.2% of all girls named Laylah (4,104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#9,067 (1975)#9,067
1980s5#10,422 (1984)#10,422
1990s52#8,016 (1998)#9,470
2000s1,500#848 (2009)#1,963
2010s4,104#594 (2014)#696
2020s1,631#782 (2020)#977

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.

Laylah in 2006

girls
#1,188
204 births · 1 in 9,320 girls

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #1,188Laylah204
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 9,320 of them was named Laylah, which outranked 94.1% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Laylah
  1. #1,184Dianna205
  2. #1,184Kori205
  3. #1,184Norma205
  4. #1,188Laylah204
  5. #1,188Annelise204
  6. #1,188Charli204
  7. #1,188Jolene204
  8. #1,196Trisha203
  9. #1,197Cianna202
  10. #1,197Kacie202

Tied with 7 names at #1,188; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

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

See the top 100 for 2006