Layla Girl
How popular is Layla?
#36 girl name in 2025
5,338 baby girls were named Layla in the US in 2025, making it the 36th most popular girl name.
Layla popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #36 for girls (▲ 1 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 5,338 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-16% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #30 in 2015, #24 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (6,523 girls) |
| Highest rank | #23 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1950 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Layla 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 Layla is most popular
Babies named Layla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Delaware: 10.4 per 1,000 (118 girls)
- Rhode Island: 8.9 per 1,000 (112 girls)
- Vermont: 8.0 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Wyoming: 7.7 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- New Mexico: 7.2 per 1,000 (175 girls)
Layla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,313 |
| 1960s | 24 | #4,299 |
| 1970s | 1,355 | #741 |
| 1980s | 1,052 | #1,083 |
| 1990s | 2,189 | #654 |
| 2000s | 26,209 | #45 |
| 2010s | 63,242 | #23 |
| 2020s | 35,046 | #24 |
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Questions
- Is Layla a boy or girl name?
- Layla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Layla were girls.
- How popular is the name Layla?
- 5,338 baby girls were named Layla in the US in 2025, making it the 36th most popular girl name.
- When was Layla most popular?
- Layla peaked in 2019, when 6,523 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #23 in 2019.
- How many people are named Layla?
- 129,245 babies have been named Layla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 128,419 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Layla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Layla was most common in Delaware, at 10.4 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.