Meaning not yet researched.
Layne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 414 in 2025. Its best rank was #564 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #564 in 1959; #662 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Layne in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#662 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #564.
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Layne: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 414 boys in 2025. Peak: #564 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 434 (2021).
In 2025, 414 US boys were named Layne, making it the 662nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 34 places from #696 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 389 boys named Layne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #564, reached in 1959. The most boys given the name in a single year was 434, in 2021. For comparison, it was #711 in 2015 and #967 in 1950.
In 2025, 156 US girls were named Layne, making it the 1,402nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 127 places from #1,275 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 182 girls named Layne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #830, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 333. For comparison, it was #2,119 in 2015 and #1,887 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layne in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 20,034 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,893 babies named Layne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,888 US boys were named Layne; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 434. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,126 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layne ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #109 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lane (52,177 babies since 1880), Laine (6,113 babies since 1880) and Layan (3,225 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Layann and Layanne 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: Layann (99), Layanne (54).
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 Layne in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 5 | #109 | — |
| West Virginia | 12 | #163 | #281 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #255 | — |
| Arkansas | 10 | #342 | #381 |
| Iowa | 9 | #385 | #350 |
| Missouri | 17 | #385 | #548 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #416 | #446 |
| Utah | 10 | #457 | #535 |
| Idaho | 5 | #465 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #490 | #469 |
| Ohio | 21 | #505 | #409 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #511 | #539 |
| Virginia | 15 | #511 | #651 |
| Indiana | 13 | #528 | #417 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #538 | #497 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #555 | #686 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #568 | #490 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #569 | #679 |
| Oregon | 6 | #570 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #586 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #590 | #791 |
| Maryland | 8 | #609 | #856 |
| Georgia | 17 | #611 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #623 | #620 |
| Arizona | 7 | #819 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #831 | #1,068 |
| Alabama | 5 | #832 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #842 | #763 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #852 | — |
| New York | 16 | #871 | #1,301 |
| Texas | 26 | #947 | #667 |
| California | 13 | #1,402 | #2,163 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,402 | 414 | #662 |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,275 | 389 | #696 |
| 2023 | 265 | #975 | 423 | #648 |
| 2022 | 293 | #923 | 410 | #667 |
| 2021 | 333 | #830 | 434 | #637 |
| 2020 | 278 | #931 | 397 | #663 |
| 2019 | 241 | #1,059 | 377 | #680 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,232 | 350 | #693 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,123 | 354 | #696 |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,470 | 340 | #721 |
| 2015 | 91 | #2,119 | 350 | #711 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,108 | 419 | #628 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,044 | 405 | #615 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,350 | 432 | #591 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,232 | 431 | #583 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,146 | 411 | #606 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,871 | 378 | #656 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,431 | 395 | #625 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,473 | 360 | #668 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,716 | 320 | #694 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,869 | 325 | #661 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,766 | 320 | #646 |
| 2003 | 120 | #1,609 | 335 | #619 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,689 | 263 | #692 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,643 | 200 | #823 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,823 | 213 | #779 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,566 | 211 | #759 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,718 | 221 | #736 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,568 | 230 | #693 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,472 | 224 | #708 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,934 | 221 | #717 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,737 | 141 | #925 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,617 | 82 | #1,258 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,071 | 81 | #1,260 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,790 | 74 | #1,311 |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,003 | 69 | #1,344 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,432 | 75 | #1,251 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,172 | 50 | #1,509 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,294 | 56 | #1,330 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,446 | 51 | #1,395 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,241 | 46 | #1,463 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,932 | 58 | #1,209 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,655 | 53 | #1,269 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,765 | 47 | #1,387 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,819 | 45 | #1,425 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,782 | 51 | #1,322 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,494 | 54 | #1,258 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,997 | 44 | #1,403 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,989 | 52 | #1,229 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,143 | 57 | #1,136 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,737 | 54 | #1,156 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,788 | 39 | #1,381 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,716 | 55 | #1,101 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,001 | 48 | #1,184 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,214 | 64 | #1,022 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,072 | 81 | #896 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,879 | 91 | #810 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,398 | 94 | #768 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,566 | 76 | #826 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,465 | 76 | #838 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,343 | 85 | #807 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,965 | 103 | #756 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,665 | 103 | #759 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,984 | 139 | #659 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,718 | 108 | #742 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,405 | 150 | #637 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,747 | 192 | #564 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,484 | 88 | #799 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,199 | 106 | #729 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,750 | 72 | #884 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,375 | 76 | #845 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,840 | 79 | #815 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,334 | 69 | #866 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,001 | 74 | #819 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,759 | 74 | #821 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,887 | 52 | #967 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,680 | 34 | #1,242 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,650 | 36 | #1,208 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,886 | 31 | #1,332 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,682 | 15 | #1,923 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,538 | 21 | #1,474 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,313 | 20 | #1,558 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,960 | 20 | #1,613 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,015 | 14 | #2,004 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,791 | 18 | #1,666 |
| 1940 | — | — | 24 | #1,385 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,033 | 17 | #1,683 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,775 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,058 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,239 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,936 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,193 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,165 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,065 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,985 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,901 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,949 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,998 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,991 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,983 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,131 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,584 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
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).