Iylah
#2,086 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iylah has been given to 723 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #2,086 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Iylah, 2025
1 in 36,800
Iylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Iylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,800
- 90 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,086
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,533 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iylah 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 25,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iylah was born before 2021 — so the typical Iylah is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 67.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 723
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (485).
Is Iylah 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
- +361
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +142
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,556
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 6.92×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 98.9%
- Peak was 2022 (91)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Iylah
Iylah is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 11.6% against Iylah's 0.14%.
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 Iylah is used
Across 2016–2025, Iylah was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 50,832 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Indiana1 in 25,000
- 2Michigan1 in 25,000
- 3California1 in 33,333
- 4Ohio1 in 33,333
- 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Arizona1 in 50,000
- 7Georgia1 in 50,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
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.
Iylah around the world
Where Iylah 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 & Wales2010–2025#1,454in 2025
- Scotland2012–2012#815in 2012
- Canada2018–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia2008–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Iylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Iylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.