Maylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,459 for girls
Maylah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,459th for girls in the US (31 babies).
What does Maylah mean?
Modern: spelling of Mayla; modern coinage
A modern name in the style of Layla and Kayla.
Meaning borrowed from Mayla.
Is Maylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 31 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,459among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 31about 1 in 52,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 196% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 31 girls in the US were named Maylah, making it the 4,459th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 2006.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Maylah of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Maylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 194 girls in the US were given Maylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,077, up from #4,459 for this spelling alone.
Maylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,459 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Maylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah Zaniyah Aziyah Hadassah Nusaybah Zayla Alaiyah Maziyah Zaya Safa Zalayah Jaziyah
Other spellings of Maylah
Names related to Maylah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maylah, updated 20 October 2026.