first name
LAYLAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,440 people named Laylah, 31.4% reported their origin as Black, 28.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 28.2% as White. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Laylah peaked in 2014, when 496 babies got the name.
At least 7,297 babies have been given the name since 1975. 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.
Laylah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,316. The largest share of babies named Laylah, 61.5%, were born in 2013 or later.
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 Laylah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Laylah has been most common in Arizona (2.4×), Florida (1.8×), and Texas (1.7×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.37×).
6,077 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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3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Laylah, most common first.
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