Layna
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 143 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,196since 1947
Layna over time
Rank among girls' names. Layna 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 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,040 | 95 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 |
| 2021 | #2,046 | 94 |
| 2020 | #1,830 | 107 |
| 2019 | #1,755 | 117 |
| 2018 | #1,748 | 117 |
| 2017 | #1,738 | 122 |
| 2016 | #1,757 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,872 | 109 |
| 2014 | #1,526 | 143 |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 |
| 2012 | #1,674 | 127 |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 |
| 2010 | #1,593 | 136 |
| 2009 | #1,695 | 131 |
| 2008 | #1,977 | 106 |
| 2007 | #2,248 | 87 |
| 2006 | #1,865 | 109 |
| 2005 | #2,503 | 69 |
| 2004 | #2,589 | 64 |
| 2003 | #2,610 | 61 |
| 2002 | #3,394 | 40 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
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| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Layna! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Layna is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#956 · 1 in 5,731
- Ohio#1,049 · 1 in 6,472
- Pennsylvania#1,118 · 1 in 7,306
- Michigan#1,303 · 1 in 8,253
- New York#1,590 · 1 in 11,000
Best ever in a state: #447 in Iowa, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #956 | 15 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,118 | 7 | 1 in 7,306 |
| Michigan | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 8,253 |
| New York | #1,590 | 8 | 1 in 11,000 |
| Texas | #1,666 | 13 | 1 in 12,298 |
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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 Layna
- 258 spots since 2024 (#2,040 → #2,298)
- 468 spots since 2020 (#1,830 → #2,298)
- 426 spots since 2015 (#1,872 → #2,298)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2014 at #1,526 (143 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,492 girls born in 2014 were named Layna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.5% of all girls named Layna (1,230) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 46 | #3,778 (1955) | #4,697 |
| 1960s | 94 | #2,752 (1964) | #3,779 |
| 1970s | 106 | #3,404 (1972) | #5,753 |
| 1980s | 167 | #3,566 (1989) | #4,786 |
| 1990s | 228 | #3,626 (1997) | #4,717 |
| 2000s | 745 | #1,695 (2009) | #2,570 |
| 2010s | 1,230 | #1,526 (2014) | #1,711 |
| 2020s | 575 | #1,830 (2020) | #2,029 |
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.
Layna in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,151 of them was named Layna, which outranked 90.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,721Nya123
- #1,721Pepper123
- #1,721Teegan123
- #1,738Layna122
- #1,738Arlet122
- #1,738Cori122
- #1,738Kourtney122
- #1,744Cosette121
- #1,744Kyah121
- #1,744Maiya121
Tied with 5 names at #1,738; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.