Seylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAY-luh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Seylah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Seylah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Selah
Selah is a Hebrew word found 74 times in the Psalms and Habakkuk, probably a musical or liturgical direction.
Is Seylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Seylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Seylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 102% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Seylah, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Seylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Seylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,962 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,376 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
Names like Seylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Salem, Hadassah, Safa, Selah, Nusaybah, Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Zaya, Naziyah, Zamira, Sariyah, Farah
Names related to Seylah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Seylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/seylah, updated 20 October 2026.