Meaning not yet researched.
Layana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,733 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,733 in 2023; #2,710 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Layana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,710 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,733.
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Layana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,733 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 119 (2023).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Layana, making it the 2,710th most common girls’ name of the year, down 735 places from #1,975 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 100 girls named Layana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,733, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #4,931 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layana in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 889 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 428 babies named Layana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 632 US girls were named Layana; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layana ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,329 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Laina (3,569 babies since 1880), Layna (3,196 babies since 1880) and Lanaya (1,435 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laiyanna are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Laiyanna (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.
No nicknames listed for Layana 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,329 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,526 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,794 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,654 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,798 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,496 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,084 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,254 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,904 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,351 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,491 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,656 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,716 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,180 | — | — |
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).