Zaylah Girl
How popular is Zaylah?
#3,341 girl name in 2025
46 baby girls were named Zaylah in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
Zaylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,341 for girls (▼ 734 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 46 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-28% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,736 in 2015, #2,931 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (71 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,494 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 2002 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zaylah 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 Zaylah is most popular
Babies named Zaylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Oklahoma: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Missouri: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Zaylah by decade
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Questions
- Is Zaylah a boy or girl name?
- Zaylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zaylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Zaylah?
- 46 baby girls were named Zaylah in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
- When was Zaylah most popular?
- Zaylah peaked in 2023, when 71 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,494 in 2023.
- How many people are named Zaylah?
- 852 babies have been named Zaylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 848 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Zaylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zaylah was most common in Oklahoma, at 0.1 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.