Zaylah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 47 babies a year in the US.
Zaylah by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Zaylah. In the US, 47 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 64 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Zaylah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Zaylah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Zayahgrace and beauty; a feminine form of Zayn or variant of Zaynah14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Zaynahgrace; beauty; a form of Zaynab38 in England and Wales (2025)
- ZayleahGod remembers; a form of Zachary11 in the US (2017)
- Zayrahblooming flower; a form of Zahra4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Zayla205 in the US (2017)
- Zylah87 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Zaylah
Names that are said the same way as Zaylah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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