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How popular is the name Laila?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lailas are alive today.
Laila (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 295th in 2025 with 151 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 616 babies were given the name, the 95th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 25% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 6,900 babies have been named Laila in England and Wales since 1996. Laila is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lailah, Laylah and Leyla; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Laila you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Lailas born in England and Wales are between 10 and 19, and there are at least 11,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Laila.
How many babies are named Laila each year?
Includes all spellings: Laila, Lailah, Laylah, Leyla. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Laila spelling rank?
Where does the Lailah spelling rank?
Where does the Laylah spelling rank?
Where does the Leyla spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Laila most popular?
Laila peaked in 2010, when 821 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Laila?
At least 11,000 people named Laila in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Laila?
Most living Lailas are between 10 and 19; the most common age is about 15.
Is Laila becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2010 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.