Aylah
#1,310 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aylah has been given to 2,332 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,310 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 213 recorded.
Babies named Aylah, 2025
1 in 19,500
Aylah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 19,500
- 170 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 9,450
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,310
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,518 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aylah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 13,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aylah was born before 2019 — so the typical Aylah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 46.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,332
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (1,073).
Is Aylah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +16
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +146
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +905
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 79.8%
- Peak was 2021 (213)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Spellings of Aylah
Aylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 30.4% against Aylah's 0.20%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Aylah is used
Across 2016–2025, Aylah was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 11,570 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 6,250
- 2California1 in 8,333
- 3Massachusetts1 in 8,333
- 4Ohio1 in 8,333
- 5New Mexico1 in 9,091
- 6Florida1 in 10,000
- 7New York1 in 10,000
- 8Wisconsin1 in 10,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Aylah around the world
Where Aylah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2025#922in 2025
- Scotland2013–2025#474in 2025
- Northern Ireland2019–2022#418in 2022
- Ireland2019–2025#608in 2025
- France2016–2025#2,091in 2025
- Canada2006–2024#2,256in 2024
- South Australia2005–2010#521in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Aylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Aylah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aylah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Aylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.