Layla
760
Babies in 2024
-45%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 1.80k
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Layla
Layla is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #56 for girls born in 2024 with 760 babies registered in England & Wales.
Layla reached its peak in 2012, when 1,796 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #29 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 760 represents 42% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 24,520 girls have been officially registered with the name Layla in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 11,943 girls were registered with the name, starting from 1,391 in 2014 and ending at 760 in 2024.