Saila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SY-la
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Saila is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Saila come from?
Finnish name of uncertain origin
Is Saila a girl's or a boy's name?
Saila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Saila, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer girls named Saila than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Saila in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Saila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Sama Zayla Zaya Salem Rahma Hafsa Salma Zamira Zaira Safiya Zahara
Names related to Saila
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, “Saila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saila, updated 20 October 2026.