Name Awesome

Lailah

#1,602 in 2025Girls' name

Spelling variant of Leila

Lailah has been given to 6,900 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,602 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 451 recorded.

Babies named Lailah, 2025

1 in 25,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lailah: meaning, origin, and history

Spelling variant of Leila

Arabic

What Lailah means

Lailah is a spelling variant of Leila.

Origin, language, and formation

Lailah is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,900 girls were recorded with the name Lailah between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 451 in 2010; its best national rank was #651 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,046 in 2020 to #1,602 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #699 in 2015 to #1,602 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lailah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,300
131 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,602
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lailah 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 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,542 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lailah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lailahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lailah was born before 2013 — so the typical Lailah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,900
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.5% of all recorded uses (3,829).

Is Lailah 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
−492
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−556
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−903
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.0%
Peak was 2010 (451)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
2010

Spellings of Lailah

Lailah is not the most common spelling — Layla is, with 25.9% against Lailah's 1.4%.

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 Lailah is used

Across 2016–2025, Lailah was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 6,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

244 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,273
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 3,226
  3. 3Alabama1 in 3,448
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,571
  5. 5Maryland1 in 4,167
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 4,348
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 4,348
  8. 8Florida1 in 4,545

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, Lailah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 64% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lailah around the world

Where Lailah 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
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #296
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #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.

Lailah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,602
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 556
Best rank ever
#651
2010
Peak year
2010
451 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,900
Count in 2025
131

Names similar to Lailah

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

LaishaLaikynLainieLaikenLaineLaylahKaylahLainaLaineyLaineeNailahJaylahLailaniLeilahMylahKamilahAkilahKylahSkylahLylahLaiyahDalilahKailahLaila

Names with a curve like Lailah

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

LilliannaPaitynRylanLilyannaMaliahSamiyahLilyanaBryleighAlyviaBraelynBrayleeJazlynn

Sibling names for Lailah

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

Explore around Lailah

Top names of 2010, Lailah's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 2010Girls' names starting with LArabic Girl Names