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Laylah

#1,254 in 2025Girls' name

Spelling variant of Leila

Laylah has been given to 7,297 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,254 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 496 recorded.

Babies named Laylah, 2025

1 in 18,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laylah: meaning, origin, and history

Spelling variant of Leila

Arabic

What Laylah means

Laylah is a spelling variant of Leila.

Origin, language, and formation

Laylah 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, 7,297 girls were recorded with the name Laylah between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 496 in 2014; its best national rank was #595 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #785 in 2020 to #1,254 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #706 in 2015 to #1,254 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 Laylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,500
179 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,980
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,254
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laylah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,839 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laylah was born before 2014 — so the typical Laylah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,297
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (4,104).

Is Laylah 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
−191
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−469
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−548
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.1%
Peak was 2014 (496)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#595
2014

Spellings of Laylah

Laylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 38.4% against Laylah's 0.81%.

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 Laylah is used

Across 2016–2025, Laylah was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 4,787 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 25,000).

430 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 3,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 3,333
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 3,448
  4. 4Arizona1 in 3,571
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 3,704
  6. 6Colorado1 in 3,846
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 3,846
  8. 8California1 in 4,000

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.

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

Laylah around the world

Where Laylah 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
    #997
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2011–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2022–2025
    #4,784
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #233
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Laylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,254
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 469
Best rank ever
#595
2014
Peak year
2014
496 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,297
Count in 2025
179

Names similar to Laylah

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

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Names with a curve like Laylah

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

RylanBrayleeMaliahPaitynAyleenZaniyahYamilethBryleighLilliannaLiliannaKairiBraelyn

Sibling names for Laylah

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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