Laila
Laila is ranked 371st among girls in 2024 (839 births). Its best rank was 135th, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- #371down 59 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8390.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 20082,413 births
- Best rank
- #135in 2009
- Since 1884
- 42,713people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,713 girls have been named Laila in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 2,413 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 149 → 371).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 46%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laila | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 17 | |
| 1910s | 175 | |
| 1920s | 177 | |
| 1930s | 107 | |
| 1940s | 89 | |
| 1950s | 135 | |
| 1960s | 219 | |
| 1970s | 474 | |
| 1980s | 695 | |
| 1990s | 1,096 | |
| 2000s | 14,445 | |
| 2010s | 19,654 | |
| 2020s | 5,413 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Laila was the 140th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Laila
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alyviapeak 2013
- Jayleepeak 2012
- Diyapeak 2009
- Jaelynnpeak 2010
- Aliviapeak 2008
- Aniyahpeak 2009
- Maleighapeak 2009
- Lilyannepeak 2010
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.