Highest ever

Laith

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#896
266 boys
2015
#1,373
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Laith: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 266 in 2025. Its best rank was #896 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Laith in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#896 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
266
Since 1880
3,608
Years on record
49

Babies named Laith, every year since 1880

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Boys

Laith: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 266 boys in 2025. Peak: #896 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 266 (2025).

About the name Laith

In 2025, 266 US boys were named Laith, making it the 896th most common boys’ name of the year, up 82 places from #978 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 231 boys named Laith in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #896, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 266. For comparison, it was #1,373 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Laith in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 3,608 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,331 babies named Laith.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,883 US boys were named Laith; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 266. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,421 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Laith ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #358 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Layth, Lathe and Laeth are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Layth (901), Lathe (18), Laeth (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Laith in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Laith by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Michigan25#358#692
New York39#442#817
Virginia12#609—
Illinois14#667#1,145
California34#768#1,982
Maryland6#768—
Pennsylvania10#817#1,112
Ohio9#905#882
Missouri5#947#908
Georgia9#958—
North Carolina8#985—
New Jersey6#987—
Arizona5#989—
Texas22#1,054#1,503
Tennessee5#1,123—
Florida8#1,423—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——266#896
2024——231#978
2023——206#1,057
2022——204#1,074
2021——165#1,192
2020——157#1,207
2019——185#1,081
2018——180#1,093
2017——163#1,158
2016——126#1,396
2015——127#1,373
2014——136#1,303
2013——123#1,374
2012——101#1,569
2011——100#1,570
2010——90#1,705
2009——91#1,715
2008——106#1,528
2007——82#1,788
2006——59#2,196
2005——69#1,862
2004——73#1,739
2003——59#1,974
2002——55#2,014
2001——49#2,139
2000——43#2,280
1999——40#2,287
1998——27#2,980
1997——31#2,585
1996——27#2,799
1995——22#3,155
1994——18#3,689
1993——28#2,620
1992——20#3,292
1991——16#3,750
1990——21#3,017
1989——7#6,636
1988——8#5,495
1987——11#4,125
1986——15#3,213
1985——10#4,220
1984——7#5,308
1983——10#4,030
1982——5#6,929
1980——16#2,906
1979——7#5,138
1977——5#6,400
1975——6#5,152
1969——5#4,739

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).