Layla
Layla holds the #36 spot in the 2025 national count, and it is easing off its peak. Its record runs from 1950 through a 2019 peak, 129,136 children in all.
Layla’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Layla, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Layla since 1950
Layla peaked in 2019 at #23; #36 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Layla is most common
Among the states, Layla takes its largest share in Delaware, 1.15% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with Wyoming and Vermont next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Layla
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Lainey
#30 in 2025
Luna
#27 in 2025
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Logan
#53 in 2025
Lincoln
#69 in 2025
Lily
#18 in 2025
Lyla
#80 in 2025
Browse: names starting with L · all names
About Layla
Where does Layla rank right now?
Layla holds the #36 spot in the 2025 national count, and it is easing off its peak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1950, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Layla?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Layla, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
What names go with Layla?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Luke, Lainey and Luna, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Layla’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Layla earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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