Xyla

What Xyla means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #760 vs #2,278 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Xyla?

US: Rising: up from #2646 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3252 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 356 girls got the name (#760 that year). First in the US records in 1999.

How common

• About 1 in 4,515 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 21,107 baby girls in England and Wales 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 MS (0.67 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.55 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.55 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Xyla is #760 in the US and #2278 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 Xyla 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

• Zyla271 US · 10 E&W
• Zayla248 US · 14 E&W
• Zola167 US · 26 E&W
• Zylah137 US · 8 E&W
• Sayla80 US
• Xylah67 US
• Zala31 US · 12 E&W
• Sila37 US · 5 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 Xyla

Girls

• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Myla#210Editor’s note Up from #335 in 2015 to #210 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Xyla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.