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Lylah

#585 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Leila

Lylah has been given to 8,547 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 556 recorded.

Babies named Lylah, 2025

1 in 6,590

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lylah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leila

Arabic

What Lylah means

Lylah is a variant of Leila.

Origin, language, and formation

Lylah 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, 8,547 girls were recorded with the name Lylah between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 556 in 2024; its best national rank was #545 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #594 in 2020 to #585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #632 in 2015 to #585 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 Lylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,590
503 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,200
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,570 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lylah 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,570 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lylah was born before 2017 — so the typical Lylah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,504
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (4,428).

Is Lylah 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
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+47
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.5%
Peak was 2024 (556)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#545
2024

Spellings of Lylah

Lylah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 22.5% against Lylah's 0.75%.

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 Lylah is used

Across 2016–2025, Lylah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,176 girls, against 1 in 2,945 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in 7,143).

1485 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,176
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,754
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 1,754
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 1,923
  5. 5Indiana1 in 1,961
  6. 6Arizona1 in 2,128
  7. 7Missouri1 in 2,128
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 2,128

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, Lylah is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 13% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lylah around the world

Where Lylah 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
    #468
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #324
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #337
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #5,711
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #205
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 9
Best rank ever
#545
2024
Peak year
2024
556 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,547
Count in 2025
503

Names similar to Lylah

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

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Names with a curve like Lylah

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

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Sibling names for Lylah

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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