Fun Facts About the Name Dayla
- More than 2 thousand babies named Dayla: U.S. records list 2,066 babies given the name Dayla from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Dayla Mean?
Dayla is a feminine name with no firmly established meaning. Its spelling is most often taken as a form of Dalia, but Dalia itself has several separate origins, including a Lithuanian word for fate or lot, an Arabic word for a vine, and the botanical name of the dahlia flower. Because those derivations belong to Dalia and not demonstrably to Dayla, that assumption does not give Dayla a single agreed meaning.
Dayla also fits a modern English naming pattern in which the ending -ayla builds feminine names such as Kayla and Jayla. Read that way, the name is sound-based rather than a translation of an older word. Nothing clearly settles which explanation applies, so the meaning is best described as uncertain.
Dayla Name History & Origins
Dayla is used mainly in the United States and other English-speaking countries. It sits alongside feminine names such as Kayla and Jayla that became common in American use in the later twentieth century, all sharing the sound -ayla. Arabic Layla, which is spelled similarly, is a much older name with its own separate history and should not be grouped with them. Dayla differs from the newer American pattern only in its first consonant.
Some sources connect the spelling to Dalia, a name with a longer history of its own: it is used in Lithuania, in Arabic-speaking countries, and in Israel, and it also appears in English as a flower name. Whether Dayla developed out of Dalia or was formed independently is not documented, so the two should not be treated as one name with one history. Dayla has no widely cited historical bearer or literary work behind its use; its presence in English reflects recent naming custom rather than an inherited tradition.
How Popular is the Name Dayla?
Dayla has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #2,176 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,908 | 58 | 0.0036% |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 | 0.0051% |
| 2023 | #2,497 | 71 | 0.0044% |
| 2022 | #2,176 | 87 | 0.0053% |
| 2021 | #3,404 | 46 | 0.0028% |
| 2020 | #3,101 | 51 | 0.0032% |
| 2019 | #3,098 | 52 | 0.0031% |
| 2018 | #4,172 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2017 | #3,061 | 53 | 0.0031% |
| 2016 | #3,388 | 47 | 0.0027% |
| 2015 | #3,141 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2014 | #3,050 | 55 | 0.0031% |
| 2013 | #2,915 | 58 | 0.0033% |
| 2012 | #2,604 | 69 | 0.0039% |
| 2011 | #3,619 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2010 | #2,791 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 2009 | #3,099 | 55 | 0.0030% |
| 2008 | #3,026 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2007 | #3,259 | 52 | 0.0027% |
| 2006 | #2,946 | 58 | 0.0031% |
| 2005 | #3,064 | 52 | 0.0028% |
| 2004 | #2,972 | 53 | 0.0029% |
| 2003 | #3,242 | 45 | 0.0025% |
| 2002 | #2,829 | 53 | 0.0029% |
| 2001 | #3,728 | 35 | 0.0019% |
| 2000 | #2,681 | 55 | 0.0030% |
| 1999 | #3,911 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1998 | #4,396 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 1997 | #3,731 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1996 | #4,483 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1995 | #5,068 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1994 | #4,724 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 1993 | #5,041 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1992 | #5,103 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 1991 | #4,235 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1990 | #4,735 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1989 | #4,551 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1988 | #3,925 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1987 | #6,016 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1986 | #7,258 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1985 | #6,128 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1984 | #6,949 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #5,534 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1982 | #6,017 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1981 | #5,326 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 1980 | #5,036 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1979 | #4,671 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1978 | #5,285 | 12 | 0.0008% |
| 1977 | #4,269 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 1976 | #4,681 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1975 | #4,199 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1974 | #3,587 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1973 | #4,022 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1972 | #4,856 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1971 | #3,985 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1970 | #4,086 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1969 | #4,786 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1968 | #7,237 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1967 | #5,081 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1966 | #4,962 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1965 | #5,956 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1964 | #4,414 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1963 | #4,976 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1962 | #4,603 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1961 | #4,314 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1960 | #4,239 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1959 | #5,145 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #5,539 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1956 | #6,152 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1953 | #5,852 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1951 | #4,106 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1950 | #4,856 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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