Zaylah
#3,384 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaylah has been given to 852 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,384 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Zaylah, 2025
1 in 72,100
Zaylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zaylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 72,100
- 46 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 34,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,384
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 49,955 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaylah 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaylah was born before 2018 — so the typical Zaylah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 852
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (428).
Is Zaylah 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
- −748
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −419
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −612
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.72×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.8%
- Peak was 2023 (71)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Zaylah
Zaylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 44.7% against Zaylah's 0.11%.
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 Zaylah is used
Across 1910–2025, Zaylah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 223,603 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Missouri1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8Oklahoma1 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. Zaylah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zaylah around the world
Where Zaylah 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#5,927in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#2,616in 2018
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zaylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.