Laya
- #1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 137 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,102since 1964
Laya over time
Rank among girls' names. Laya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,540 | 137 |
| 2024 | #2,134 | 89 |
| 2023 | #2,020 | 97 |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 |
| 2018 | #2,048 | 95 |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 |
| 2015 | #1,996 | 99 |
| 2014 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 |
| 2010 | #2,296 | 83 |
| 2009 | #2,592 | 71 |
| 2008 | #3,017 | 57 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
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| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Laya! It came in at #6,009, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Laya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#843 · 1 in 4,218
- Michigan#965 · 1 in 5,104
- California#1,185 · 1 in 7,701
- North Carolina#1,281 · 1 in 7,747
- New York#1,312 · 1 in 7,833
Best ever in a state: #764 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #843 | 8 | 1 in 4,218 |
| Michigan | #965 | 7 | 1 in 5,104 |
| California | #1,185 | 21 | 1 in 7,701 |
| North Carolina | #1,281 | 6 | 1 in 7,747 |
| New York | #1,312 | 10 | 1 in 7,833 |
| Texas | #1,314 | 19 | 1 in 8,450 |
| Florida | #1,325 | 10 | 1 in 8,676 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Laya
- 368 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #1,540)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2025 at #1,540 (137 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 were named Laya (0.01%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Laya (881) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 30 | #5,642 (1968) | #6,170 |
| 1970s | 32 | #7,070 (1970) | #8,702 |
| 1980s | 68 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,849 |
| 1990s | 82 | #7,130 (1996) | #10,009 |
| 2000s | 406 | #2,592 (2009) | #4,061 |
| 2010s | 881 | #1,888 (2019) | #2,188 |
| 2020s | 603 | #1,540 (2025) | #1,973 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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