Layla
The girl's name Layla has been in the national records since 1950, with 129,245 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 36th. About 128,000 Laylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 129,245
- Estimated living today
- 128,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 23rd
- Rank in 2025
- 36th
- First recorded
- 1950
- Girls / boys
- 129,136 / 109
How old the living Laylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 129,245 babies given the name since 1950, about 128,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 108,000 of them are children and 15 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
One of many of a name transliterated from Arabic; see Leila for more information. Since the late 20th century, in English, this given name in this spelling is sometimes bestowed solely because it is considered euphonious, a theme true of many given names; Wikipedia at given name § Popularity discusses name choice motivations.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Laylas
- Layla El (born 1977)British professional wrestler, dancer, and model
- Layla al-Akhyaliyya (700–700)Famous Umayyad Arab poet who was renowned for her poetry, eloquence, strong personality as well as her beauty
- Layla Al-Attar (1944–1993)Iraqi artist and painter
- Layla Moran (born 1982)British politician
- Layla Balabakki (1934–2023)Lebanese author
People named Layla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Layla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Layla is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Florida (1.8×), Delaware (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Layla peaked:
Layla elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Layla | 25,353 | 29th |
| France girls | Layla | 2,625 | 397th |
| Scotland girls | Layla | 2,398 | 25th |
| Ireland girls | Layla | 2,220 | 45th |
| New Zealand girls | Layla | 1,057 | 29th |
| Italy girls | Layla | 635 | — |
| Belgium girls | Layla | 630 | 296th |
| Switzerland girls | Layla | 574 | 181st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Layla | 497 | 68th |
| Poland girls | Layla | 419 birth registrations | 204th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Layla: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Layla | 446 | 0.036% | 152nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Layla | 105 | 0.024% | 187th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Layla | 23 | 0.035% | 78th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Layla is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.06% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Layla: rank by region
In 2025, Layla was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Layla | 350 | 15 |
| Brussels | Layla | 194 | 6 |
In 2016, Layla was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Layla | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Layla was given 2 times or more in 8 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Layla | 169 | 4 |
| Lubelskie | Layla | 124 | 3 |
| Lubuskie | Layla | 100 | 4 |
| Małopolskie | Layla | 232 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Layla | 276 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Layla | 219 | 3 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Layla | 114 | 2 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Layla | 110 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Layla appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (194th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Layla by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 94 | 153rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Layla among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Layla | 89 | 118 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Layla lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,328 women called Layla were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Layla | 123 | 2.841 | 73 |
| Ceuta | Layla | 15 | 0.362 | 411 |
| Girona | Layla | 110 | 0.266 | 414 |
| Rioja, La | Layla | 40 | 0.242 | 430 |
| Tarragona | Layla | 85 | 0.194 | 513 |
| Teruel | Layla | 12 | 0.180 | 479 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Layla against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.