Rayla
#1,569 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rayla has been given to 1,590 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #1,569 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 135 recorded.
Babies named Rayla, 2025
1 in 24,600
Rayla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rayla?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 24,600
- 135 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,569
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,023 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rayla sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 17,023 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raylas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayla was born before 2018 — so the typical Rayla is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,590
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (706).
Is Rayla 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
- +220
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +351
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,558
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.75×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (135)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.3% average annual change
Spellings of Rayla
Rayla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 16.1% against Rayla's 0.07%.
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 Rayla is used
Across 2016–2025, Rayla was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,770 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 7,692
- 2Florida1 in 14,286
- 3Michigan1 in 16,667
- 4Ohio1 in 16,667
- 5Wisconsin1 in 16,667
- 6New York1 in 20,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 8California1 in 25,000
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.
Rayla around the world
Where Rayla 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 & Wales2020–2025#2,788in 2025
- France2017–2025#6,920in 2025
- Canada2013–2024#1,469in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Rayla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rayla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rayla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.