Layla
Layla is ranked 37th among girls in 2024 (5,305 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #37down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,3050.33% of girls
- Peak year
- 20196,518 births
- Best rank
- #23in 2019
- Since 1950
- 123,729people given the name
The story in the numbers
123,729 girls have been named Layla in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 6,518 births — 0.39% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 29 → 37).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 51%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Layla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | |
| 1960s | 24 | |
| 1970s | 1,355 | |
| 1980s | 1,052 | |
| 1990s | 2,188 | |
| 2000s | 26,208 | |
| 2010s | 63,221 | |
| 2020s | 29,662 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Layla was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Layla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janylapeak 2019
- Harmoneepeak 2013
- Edynpeak 2016
- Delylahpeak 2020
- Presleypeak 2014
- Mirabellepeak 2015
- Madilynnpeak 2014
- Malayapeak 2014
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.