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Leylah

#3,277 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Leila

Leylah has been given to 1,005 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,277 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Leylah, 2025

1 in 69,100

Leylah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leylah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leila

Arabic

What Leylah means

Leylah is a variant of Leila.

Origin, language, and formation

Leylah 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, 1,005 girls were recorded with the name Leylah between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,742 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,582 in 2020 to #3,277 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,073 in 2015 to #3,277 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 Leylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,277
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leylah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leylah was born before 2016 — so the typical Leylah is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,005
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (501).

Is Leylah 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
+337
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+305
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−204
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.2%
Peak was 2022 (63)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,742
2022

Spellings of Leylah

Leylah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 31.4% against Leylah's 0.12%.

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 Leylah is used

Across 1910–2025, Leylah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,081 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

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. Leylah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leylah around the world

Where Leylah 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2023
    #5,092
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,277
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 305
Best rank ever
#2,742
2022
Peak year
2022
63 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,005
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Leylah

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

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Sibling names for Leylah

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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