Lajla
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lajla has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Lajla, 2019
1 in 496,000
Lajla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lajla?
Lajla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 240,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lajla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lajla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lajlas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lajla was born before 2009 — so the typical Lajla is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Lajla 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2019 (7)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lajla
Lajla is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 28.9% against Lajla's <0.01%.
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.
Lajla around the world
Where Lajla 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.
- Norway1880–1974#530in 1974
- South Australia2006–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lajla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lajla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lajla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.