Lylah

What Lylah means

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

Editor’s note Up from #629 in 2015 to #584 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lylah?

US: Steady: #629 in 2015, #584 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1007 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 556 girls got the name (#544 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 3,195 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,980 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 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 LA (1.04 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.88 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.72 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lylah is #584 in the US and #468 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 Lylah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Layla5,338 US · 833 E&W
• Lyla3,089 US · 751 E&W
• Lilah1,736 US · 464 E&W
• Lila1,670 US · 277 E&W
• Lola1,132 US · 524 E&W
• Leyla478 US · 101 E&W
• Laylah179 US · 34 E&W
• Lailah131 US · 9 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 Lylah

Girls

• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025

For a brother

• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Rayan#588Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #178 vs #588 in 2025
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies
• Omari#686Editor’s note Down from #508 in 2015 to #686 in 2025 in the US

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 Lylah’s. Rank is US 2025.