Zaylah
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 71 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 852since 2002
Zaylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaylah has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #3,342 | 46 |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,494 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 |
| 2021 | #2,586 | 67 |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
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| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
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| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaylah! It came in at #15,432, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2005, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zaylah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#705 · 1 in 2,974
- Missouri#948 · 1 in 4,946
- California#2,193 · 1 in 19,392
- Texas#2,558 · 1 in 22,211
Best ever in a state: #705 in Oklahoma, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #705 | 5 | 1 in 2,974 |
| Missouri | #948 | 5 | 1 in 4,946 |
| California | #2,193 | 9 | 1 in 19,392 |
| Texas | #2,558 | 7 | 1 in 22,211 |
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See more about Zaylah
- 735 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #3,342)
- 411 spots since 2020 (#2,931 → #3,342)
- 606 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #3,342)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2023 at #2,494 (71 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,600 girls born in 2023 were named Zaylah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.2% of all girls named Zaylah (428) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 56 | #8,109 (2008) | #12,038 |
| 2010s | 428 | #2,736 (2015) | #3,942 |
| 2020s | 368 | #2,494 (2023) | #2,786 |
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.
Zaylah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 24,490 of them was named Zaylah, which outranked 85.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,558Thyri68
- #2,558Tracy68
- #2,558Xareni68
- #2,586Zaylah67
- #2,586Aalayah67
- #2,586Aditi67
- #2,586Aeris67
- #2,608Abilene66
- #2,608Aminata66
- #2,608Azlynn66
Tied with 21 names at #2,586; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.