Zayla Girl
How popular is Zayla?
#1,008 girl name in 2025
248 baby girls were named Zayla in the US in 2025, making it the 1008th most popular girl name.
Zayla popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,008 for girls (▼ 21 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 248 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+44% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,372 in 2015, #1,138 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (351 girls) |
| Highest rank | #800 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zayla counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zayla family of names ranked #685 for girls in 2025 (#677 the year before), with 391 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 Zayla is most popular
Babies named Zayla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 1.0 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Iowa: 0.4 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Colorado: 0.4 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Arizona: 0.4 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Zayla by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zayla
Questions
- Is Zayla a boy or girl name?
- Zayla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zayla were girls.
- How popular is the name Zayla?
- 248 baby girls were named Zayla in the US in 2025, making it the 1008th most popular girl name.
- When was Zayla most popular?
- Zayla peaked in 2023, when 351 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #800 in 2023.
- How many people are named Zayla?
- 3,949 babies have been named Zayla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,930 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Zayla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zayla was most common in New Mexico, at 1.0 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.