Leila Girl
How popular is Leila?
#259 girl name in 2025
1,193 baby girls were named Leila in the US in 2025, making it the 259th most popular girl name.
Leila popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #259 for girls (▲ 8 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,193 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #247 in 2015, #205 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2010 (1,509 girls) |
| Highest rank | #163 in 1880 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Leila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Leila family of names ranked #182 for girls in 2025, with 1,844 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 Leila is most popular
Babies named Leila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 6.8 per 1,000 (78 girls)
- District of Columbia: 3.2 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.5 per 1,000 (85 girls)
- California: 1.4 per 1,000 (1,185 girls)
- Rhode Island: 1.4 per 1,000 (17 girls)
Leila by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,079 | #163 |
| 1890s | 1,588 | #179 |
| 1900s | 1,529 | #238 |
| 1910s | 2,830 | #304 |
| 1920s | 3,340 | #323 |
| 1930s | 2,473 | #366 |
| 1940s | 1,852 | #482 |
| 1950s | 1,740 | #655 |
| 1960s | 1,578 | #744 |
| 1970s | 1,624 | #784 |
| 1980s | 2,106 | #735 |
| 1990s | 2,177 | #733 |
| 2000s | 9,904 | #226 |
| 2010s | 13,914 | #205 |
| 2020s | 7,702 | #205 |
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Questions
- Is Leila a boy or girl name?
- Leila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Leila were girls.
- How popular is the name Leila?
- 1,193 baby girls were named Leila in the US in 2025, making it the 259th most popular girl name.
- When was Leila most popular?
- Leila peaked in 2010, when 1,509 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #163 in 1880.
- How many people are named Leila?
- 55,447 babies have been named Leila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 41,813 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Leila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Leila was most common in Hawaii, at 6.8 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.