girls:
1.3k births since 1955
#4386 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1955
#6404 (17th percentile)
The name Rayla is the #6,404 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,339 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 17.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,386 (23.2% percentile) for all time with 1,339 births since 1955.
Rayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (first recorded for girls in 1955). Birth data for Rayla is available in 56 out of the 69 years between 1955 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, Rayla reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #823) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 74 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rayla is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #823 (13.1% percentile) with 74 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rayla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rayla is pronounced as RAY-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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