Meaning not yet researched.
Layah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,075 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,075 in 2016; #2,948 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Layah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,948 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,075.
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Layah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,075 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 95 (2016).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Layah, making it the 2,948th most common girls’ name of the year, up 366 places from #3,314 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 48 girls named Layah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,075, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 95. For comparison, it was #2,449 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 8 babies. In all, 1,365 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 726 babies named Layah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 676 US girls were named Layah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layah ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,896 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laya (2,102 babies since 1880), Laia (1,130 babies since 1880) and Laiyah (736 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
No nicknames listed for Layah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,896 | #2,622 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,341 | #2,274 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2015 | 75 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,925 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,033 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,702 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,945 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,938 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,561 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,578 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,971 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,688 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,031 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,759 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,106 | — | — |
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).