Leyla Girl
How popular is Leyla?
#611 girl name in 2025
478 baby girls were named Leyla in the US in 2025, making it the 611th most popular girl name.
Leyla popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #611 for girls (▼ 12 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 478 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+32% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #782 in 2015, #586 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (504 girls) |
| Highest rank | #586 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1957 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Leyla 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 Leyla is most popular
Babies named Leyla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Connecticut: 0.6 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.6 per 1,000 (107 girls)
- Florida: 0.6 per 1,000 (242 girls)
- New York: 0.5 per 1,000 (216 girls)
- California: 0.5 per 1,000 (410 girls)
Leyla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23 | #4,030 |
| 1960s | 73 | #3,548 |
| 1970s | 354 | #1,578 |
| 1980s | 243 | #2,900 |
| 1990s | 456 | #1,890 |
| 2000s | 2,404 | #741 |
| 2010s | 4,096 | #619 |
| 2020s | 2,915 | #586 |
Girl names about as popular as Leyla
Questions
- Is Leyla a boy or girl name?
- Leyla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Leyla were girls.
- How popular is the name Leyla?
- 478 baby girls were named Leyla in the US in 2025, making it the 611th most popular girl name.
- When was Leyla most popular?
- Leyla peaked in 2022, when 504 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #586 in 2020.
- How many people are named Leyla?
- 10,564 babies have been named Leyla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 10,469 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Leyla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Leyla was most common in Connecticut, at 0.6 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.