Janyla is a modern American coinage that joins the popular Ja- opening of names like Janae and Janiyah with the ending of Nyla, which is usually traced to the Arabic Naila and given the meaning "winner" or "achiever". It belongs to a family of melodic -yla and -iyah names that took off in the early 2000s. In the United States Janyla peaked at number 1553 in 2019 and ranks number 1984 in 2025 with 97 births.