Lyla
The 2025 national count puts Lyla at #80, with the curve still pointing up. The records carry it back to 1884, but its real era is now, 49,294 American children have carried it so far.
Lyla’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lyla, 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.
Lyla since 1884
Lyla is at its all-time peak right now: #80 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lyla is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Lyla runs strongest in Wyoming at 0.62% in 2025, then North Dakota and Maine.
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 Lyla
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Lincoln
#69 in 2025
Landon
#127 in 2025
Layla
#36 in 2025
Lilah
#179 in 2025
Lila
#187 in 2025
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About Lyla
How common is Lyla today?
The 2025 national count puts Lyla at #80, with the curve still pointing up. The full curve since 1884 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Lyla have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Lyla keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Lyla?
Nearest by the published recipe: Lucia, Luka and Lydia. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Lyla’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 Lyla earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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