Zylah Girl
How popular is Zylah?
#1,540 girl name in 2025
137 baby girls were named Zylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
Zylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,540 for girls (▼ 11 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 137 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+149% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,059 in 2015, #1,781 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (140 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,529 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 2001 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zylah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zyla family of names ranked #622 for girls in 2025 (#587 the year before), with 442 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zyla | 271 | 61% |
| Zylah | 137 | 31% |
| Zillah | 15 | 3% |
| Zilah | 14 | 3% |
| Zyllah | 5 | 1% |
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 Zylah is most popular
Babies named Zylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Alabama: 0.2 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (23 girls)
Zylah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zylah
Questions
- Is Zylah a boy or girl name?
- Zylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Zylah?
- 137 baby girls were named Zylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
- When was Zylah most popular?
- Zylah peaked in 2024, when 140 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,529 in 2024.
- How many people are named Zylah?
- 1,445 babies have been named Zylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,439 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 6.
- Where is Zylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zylah was most common in Georgia, at 0.2 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.