Zyla

What Zyla means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,012 in 2015, #950 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zyla?

US: Rising: up from #2012 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #5730 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 295 girls got the name (#900 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 5,931 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 25,328 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 LA (0.67 per 1,000 girls), AL (0.55 per 1,000 girls), NV (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zyla is #950 in the US and #2605 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 Zyla were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Xyla356 US · 12 E&W
• Zayla248 US · 14 E&W
• Zola167 US · 26 E&W
• Zylah137 US · 8 E&W
• Zella117 US · 4 E&W
• Zaila84 US · 6 E&W
• Sayla80 US
• Xylah67 US

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 Zyla

Girls

• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*

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 Zyla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.