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Iyla

#525 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Isla

Iyla has been given to 4,045 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #525 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 572 recorded.

Babies named Iyla, 2025

1 in 5,800

Iyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iyla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Isla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iyla means

Iyla is a variant of Isla.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,045 girls were recorded with the name Iyla between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 572 in 2025; its best national rank was #525 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #909 in 2020 to #525 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,834 in 2015 to #525 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Iyla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,800
572 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,810
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#525
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,018 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iyla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,018 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iyla was born before 2022 — so the typical Iyla is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,040
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 65.9% of all recorded uses (2,666).

Is Iyla 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
+43
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+384
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,309
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (572)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#525
2025

Spellings of Iyla

Iyla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 12.6% against Iyla's 0.15%.

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 Iyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Iyla was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 2,128 girls, against 1 in 4,629 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 20,000).

547 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 2,128
  2. 2Iowa1 in 2,564
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 2,703
  4. 4Michigan1 in 3,030
  5. 5Ohio1 in 3,030
  6. 6Indiana1 in 3,125
  7. 7Arizona1 in 3,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 3,448

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.

Geographically, Iyla is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 30% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Iyla around the world

Where Iyla 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 & Wales
    2002–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #350
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Iyla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 384
Best rank ever
#525
2025
Peak year
2025
572 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,045
Count in 2025
572

Names similar to Iyla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Iyla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Iyla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Iyla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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