Lyla

What Lyla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lyla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #141 in 2015 to #80 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lyla?

US: Rising: up from #141 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #121 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,089 girls got the name (#80 that year). First in the US records in 1884.

How common

• About 1 in 520 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 337 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 232 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), ND (5.93 per 1,000 girls), ME (4.82 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lyla is #80 in the US and #61 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lyla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lily6,673 US · 2,249 E&W
• Layla5,338 US · 833 E&W
• Lilah1,736 US · 464 E&W
• Lila1,670 US · 277 E&W
• Lola1,132 US · 524 E&W
• Leila1,193 US · 171 E&W
• Laila755 US · 151 E&W
• Lylah503 US · 85 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lyla

Girls

• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025

For a brother

• Rayan#588Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #178 vs #588 in 2025
• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Yahya#615Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #81 vs #615 in 2025
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lyla’s. Rank is US 2025.