Zyla

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 149 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
149
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#953
down from #901
UK popularity
#2605
10 babies

How Zyla has moved

US popularity rank, 2024–2025. Lower is more popular.
#823#927#1031202420252025#953

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YearUS rank
2024#901
2025#953

Zyla by the numbers

In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Zyla. In the US, 149 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 best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Zyla

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 Zyla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Zolaball of earth or soil236 in the US (2017)
  • Zayla205 in the US (2017)
  • Zylah87 in the US (2017)
  • Zyra41 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Zya50 in the US (2017)
  • Zula15 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Zyla

Names that are said the same way as Zyla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Xylafrom the forest or woodland; a respelling of Xylia12 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Zillahshadow; shade16 in the US (2017)
  • Zilahshade; shadow10 in the US (2017)
  • Xylah22 in the US (2017)
  • Ziyla7 in the US (2017)
  • Zyllah6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Zyla

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