Zaylia

#7,878 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zaylia has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #7,878 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Zaylia, 2025

1 in 237,000

Zaylia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,878
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaylia 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaylia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaylias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaylia was born before 2019 — so the typical Zaylia is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
154
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Zaylia 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
+4,261
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,189
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,941
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2019 (14)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,878
2025

Spellings of Zaylia

Zaylia is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 38.8% against Zaylia's 0.02%.

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.

Zaylia around the world

Where Zaylia 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
    2021–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2002–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Zaylia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,878
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,189
Best rank ever
#7,878
2025
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
14

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Sibling names for Zaylia

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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