Laya — #2136 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Laya

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,963 babies named Laya between 1964 and 2024, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laya currently holds the #2136 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 106 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 881 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Laya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 201 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Laya in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,963 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.