Laith
Laith was given to 266 boys in 2025, #896 among boys’ names; 3,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,560 Americans named Laith and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laith by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laith mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laith is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Borrowed from Arabic لَيْث (layṯ).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laith?
#896 among boys’ names, 2025
Laith rose from #1,373 in 2015 to #896 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.16 per 1,000.
266 babies in 2025, the peak
Laith peaked in 2025, when 266 boys were given it, #896 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 231 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 266 | #896 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 231 | #978 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,057 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,074 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,192 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,207 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 185 | #1,081 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 180 | #1,093 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 163 | #1,158 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,396 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,373 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,569 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,570 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,705 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 91 | #1,714 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 82 | #1,788 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 69 | #1,858 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,736 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,970 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,010 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,135 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,276 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,284 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,743 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,011 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,028 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,927 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,905 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laith a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laith has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laith: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laith, and how old are they?
3,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,608 Americans ever recorded as Laith. The median Laith alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,044 people named Laith (16 women and girls, 3,028 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,250 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Laith born?
The states with the most babies named Laith are New York, California and Michigan, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #442 | 1.3× |
| California | 34 | #768 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 25 | #358 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,054 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 14 | #667 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 12 | #609 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #817 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #905 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #958 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,423 | 0.6× |
Where Laith is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laith is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1969 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laith with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,509 babies since 1880, Laith is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 266 of their 325 babies (82%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laith
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laith and names like it
- Compare Laith and LaythBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLaith peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laith since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Laith: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Laith.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laith alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.