Lailah Girl
How popular is Lailah?
#1,592 girl name in 2025
131 baby girls were named Lailah in the US in 2025, making it the 1592nd most popular girl name.
Lailah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,592 for girls (▼ 487 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 131 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-68% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #697 in 2015, #1,046 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2010 (451 girls) |
| Highest rank | #650 in 2010 |
| First recorded | 1981 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lailah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Layla family of names ranked #35 for girls in 2025 (#31 the year before), with 6,403 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lailah is most popular
Babies named Lailah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.2 per 1,000 (26 girls)
Lailah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Lailah
Questions
- Is Lailah a boy or girl name?
- Lailah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lailah were girls.
- How popular is the name Lailah?
- 131 baby girls were named Lailah in the US in 2025, making it the 1592nd most popular girl name.
- When was Lailah most popular?
- Lailah peaked in 2010, when 451 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #650 in 2010.
- How many people are named Lailah?
- 6,900 babies have been named Lailah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,856 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 13.
- Where is Lailah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lailah was most common in Louisiana, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.