first name
LAILA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 35,860 people named Laila, 33.9% reported their origin as White, 31.5% as Black and 18.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Laila peaked in 2008, when 2,414 babies got the name.
At least 43,507 babies have been given the name since 1884. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Laila by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #370. The largest share of babies named Laila, 49.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Laila is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Laila has been most common in Nevada (2.4×), Maryland (1.9×), and Florida (1.8×), and least common in Montana (0.27×).
41,042 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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