girls:
9.6k births since 1957
#1647 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.6k births since 1957
#2748 (64th percentile)
The name Leyla is the #2,748 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,576 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 64.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,647 (71.2% percentile) for all time with 9,576 births since 1957.
Leyla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for girls in 1957). Birth data for Leyla is available in 66 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Leyla reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 47.2% percentile (ranked #497) with 279 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 282 births per million (ranked 46.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leyla is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #512 (46.0% percentile) with 282 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leyla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Leyla is pronounced as LAY-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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