Meaning not yet researched.
Laysha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,918 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,918 in 2004; #10,545 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laysha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,545 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,918.
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Laysha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,918 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 98 (2004).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Laysha, making it the 10,545th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,653 places from #5,892 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 21 girls named Laysha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,918, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #7,461 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laysha in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 887 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 627 babies named Laysha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 119 US girls were named Laysha; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lashay (2,847 babies since 1880), Laisha (2,447 babies since 1880) and Lashae (1,636 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Laysha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,545 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,021 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,865 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,935 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,715 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,556 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,534 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,577 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,176 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,461 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,891 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,545 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,650 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,649 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,456 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,886 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,973 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,086 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,719 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,233 | — | — |
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).