Zailah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-luh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Zailah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
Where does Zailah come from?
Modern: spelling of Zaila; probably a Z- variant of Laila or Kayla
Meaning borrowed from Zaila.
Is Zailah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zailah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zailah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Zailah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Zailah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 176 girls in the US were given Zailah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,154, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
Zailah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
Names like Zailah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Zayla, Zaya, Zalayah, Hadassah, Aziyah, Zaiya, Zamiyah, Zainab, Nusaybah, Safa
Other spellings of Zailah
Names related to Zailah
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, “Zailah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zailah, updated 20 October 2026.