Saylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #3,902 for girls
Saylah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,902nd for girls in the US (37 babies).
Where does Saylah come from?
Modern: spelling of Sayla; coinage, perhaps a variant of Sela or Kayla
Meaning borrowed from Sayla.
Is Saylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Saylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 37 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,902among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 37about 1 in 43,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 107% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 37 girls in the US were named Saylah, making it the 3,902nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 56 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Saylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 143 girls in the US were given Saylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,321, up from #3,902 for this spelling alone.
Saylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,902 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,277 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,975 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,200 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,552 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Saylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Zaliyah Safa Hadassah Aziyah Salem Zayla Nusaybah Alaiyah Zaya Kaliyah Naziyah
Other spellings of Saylah
Names related to Saylah
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, “Saylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saylah, updated 20 October 2026.