Meaning not yet researched.
Layna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,531 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,531 in 2014; #2,312 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Layna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,312 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,531.
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Layna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,531 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 143 (2014).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Layna, making it the 2,312th most common girls’ name of the year, down 263 places from #2,049 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 95 girls named Layna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,531, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 143. For comparison, it was #1,879 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layna in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 3,196 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,230 babies named Layna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,049 US girls were named Layna; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layna ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,599 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), Lanae (2,951 babies since 1880) and Layana (889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Layanna, Layonna and Layanah 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: Layanna (486), Layonna (281), Layanah (40), Layahna (11), Layauna (7).
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 Layna 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,599 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,040 | #1,987 |
| New York | 5 | #2,264 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,592 | #1,763 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2007 | 87 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,922 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,449 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,621 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,200 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,619 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,365 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,038 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,111 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,686 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,498 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,825 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,218 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,880 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,070 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,620 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,165 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,646 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,933 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,473 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,731 | — | — |
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).