Layne
#1,396 for girls in 2025, 156 births · #662 for boys in 2025, 414 births
Given to boys 71.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1959 · 192 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,355since 1918
Layne over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,396 | 156 | #662 | 414 |
| 2024 | #1,275 | 182 | #695 | 389 |
| 2023 | #974 | 265 | #648 | 423 |
| 2022 | #923 | 293 | #666 | 410 |
| 2021 | #829 | 333 | #636 | 434 |
| 2020 | #929 | 278 | #663 | 397 |
| 2019 | #1,059 | 241 | #680 | 377 |
| 2018 | #2,217 | 83 | #693 | 350 |
| 2017 | #2,108 | 91 | #695 | 354 |
| 2016 | #2,463 | 74 | #720 | 340 |
| 2015 | #2,113 | 91 | #711 | 350 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 | #628 | 419 |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | #615 | 405 |
| 2012 | #2,336 | 80 | #591 | 432 |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 | #583 | 431 |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | #606 | 411 |
| 2009 | #1,866 | 113 | #656 | 378 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #624 | 395 |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 | #666 | 360 |
| 2006 | #1,709 | 122 | #694 | 320 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | #661 | 325 |
| 2004 | #1,756 | 109 | #645 | 320 |
| 2003 | #1,605 | 120 | #619 | 335 |
| 2002 | #1,683 | 109 | #691 | 263 |
| 2001 | #1,641 | 111 | #822 | 200 |
| 2000 | #1,817 | 95 | #779 | 213 |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 108 | #757 | 211 |
| 1998 | #1,709 | 93 | #736 | 221 |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | #693 | 230 |
| 1996 | #1,466 | 112 | #707 | 224 |
| 1995 | #1,920 | 72 | #717 | 221 |
| 1994 | #1,728 | 85 | #924 | 141 |
| 1993 | #1,611 | 94 | #1,254 | 82 |
| 1992 | #2,059 | 66 | #1,255 | 81 |
| 1991 | #1,779 | 80 | #1,308 | 74 |
| 1990 | #1,989 | 68 | #1,336 | 69 |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 | #1,243 | 75 |
| 1988 | #2,152 | 53 | #1,501 | 50 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 | #1,316 | 56 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | #1,385 | 51 |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 | #1,452 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,922 | 54 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,644 | 67 | #1,265 | 53 |
| 1982 | #1,755 | 63 | #1,382 | 47 |
| 1981 | #1,809 | 61 | #1,411 | 45 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 | #1,313 | 51 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | #1,255 | 54 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 | #1,393 | 44 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | #1,221 | 52 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | #1,123 | 57 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 | #1,146 | 54 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | #1,370 | 39 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | #1,093 | 55 |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | #1,177 | 48 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 | #1,014 | 64 |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | #895 | 81 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #809 | 91 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | #765 | 94 |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | #822 | 76 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 | #835 | 76 |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | #806 | 85 |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | #753 | 103 |
| 1963 | #2,619 | 22 | #757 | 103 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 | #657 | 139 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 | #740 | 108 |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 | #635 | 150 |
| 1959 | #1,741 | 40 | #561 | 192 |
| 1958 | #2,449 | 22 | #796 | 88 |
| 1957 | #2,168 | 26 | #728 | 106 |
| 1956 | #1,738 | 37 | #880 | 72 |
| 1955 | #2,341 | 22 | #844 | 76 |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 | #813 | 79 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | #863 | 69 |
| 1952 | #1,978 | 26 | #814 | 74 |
| 1951 | #1,740 | 31 | #820 | 74 |
| 1950 | #1,871 | 26 | #960 | 52 |
| 1949 | #2,620 | 15 | #1,227 | 34 |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | #1,194 | 36 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | #1,316 | 31 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 | #1,884 | 15 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 | #1,445 | 21 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | #1,525 | 20 |
| 1943 | #2,861 | 11 | #1,577 | 20 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | #1,946 | 14 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | #1,633 | 18 |
| 1940 | — | #1,368 | 24 | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | #1,636 | 17 |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,184 | 11 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,121 | 12 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Layne! It came in at #3,368, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Layne is popular in 1918
No state had 5 or more boys named Layne in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Layne
- 33 spots since 2024 (#695 → #662)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#663 → #662)
- 49 spots since 2015 (#711 → #662)
- Biggest jump: 330 spots in 1994 (#1,254 → #924)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 1971 (#895 → #1,014)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1959 at #561 (192 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 53 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,031 boys born in 2021 were named Layne (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,126 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #561 in 1959, was only 1 in 11,117 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.0% of all boys named Layne (3,869) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,368 (1918) | #3,368 |
| 1920s | 35 | #3,697 (1928) | #3,839 |
| 1930s | 94 | #1,636 (1939) | #2,665 |
| 1940s | 233 | #1,194 (1948) | #1,512 |
| 1950s | 882 | #561 (1959) | #808 |
| 1960s | 1,025 | #635 (1960) | #758 |
| 1970s | 548 | #895 (1970) | #1,169 |
| 1980s | 532 | #1,198 (1984) | #1,347 |
| 1990s | 1,554 | #693 (1997) | #969 |
| 2000s | 3,109 | #619 (2003) | #686 |
| 2010s | 3,869 | #583 (2011) | #652 |
| 2020s | 2,467 | #636 (2021) | #662 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Layne in 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
boys
1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 144,783 of them was named Layne, which outranked 30.0% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,096Yoshimi8
- #3,096Zelma8
- #3,096Zigmont8
- #3,368Layne7
- #3,368Acel7
- #3,368Achilles7
- #3,368Ada7
- #3,728Ab6
- #3,728Abran6
- #3,728Acencion6
Tied with 359 names at #3,368; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.