girls:
118.4k births since 1950
#325 (94th percentile)
boys:
102 births since 2004
#4484 (2nd percentile)
overall:
118.5k births since 1950
#606 (92nd percentile)
The name Layla is the #606 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118,468 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #325 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 118,366 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,484 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 2004.
Layla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Layla is available in 60 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 14 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Layla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Layla reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 97.7% percentile (ranked #23) with 3,551 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3,551 births per million (ranked 97.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Layla ranks #29 for girls (97.0% percentile) with 3,246 births per million, which is 91.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Layla reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #876) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Layla".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Layla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Layla is pronounced as LAY-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-lah, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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