Zaela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-lah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Zaela is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
Where does Zaela come from?
Modern: modern coinage
Is Zaela a girl's or a boy's name?
Zaela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zaela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 19% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Zaela, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Zaela in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 176 girls in the US were given Zaela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,154, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
Zaela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
Names like Zaela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayla, Amoura, Zhamira, Zaya, Zya, Safa, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Zamira, Ayra, Zaira, Zahara
Other spellings of Zaela
Names related to Zaela
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, “Zaela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zaela, updated 20 October 2026.