Layah
Layah was given to 57 girls in 2025, #2,948 among girls’ names; 1,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Layah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layah?
#2,948 among girls’ names, 2025
Layah fell from #2,449 in 2015 to #2,948 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.0 to 35.5 per million.
95 babies in 2016, the peak
Layah peaked in 2016, when 95 girls were given it, #2,075 among girls’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,948 | 35.5 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,314 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,633 | 41.8 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,142 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,623 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,486 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,581 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,262 | 47.6 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,497 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,075 | 53.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,449 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,227 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,334 | 45.0 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,442 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,034 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,924 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,026 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,596 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,524 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,032 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,697 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,381 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,940 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,932 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,554 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,570 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,964 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,681 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,026 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,753 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,101 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Layah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Layah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Layah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layah, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,365 Americans ever recorded as Layah. The median Layah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 875 people named Layah (874 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,016 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 432 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 909 |
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 Layah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,896 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,341 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Layah 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 150,553 babies since 1880, Layah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 5,947 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Layah
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 Layah and names like it
- Compare Layah and LaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLayah peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Layah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.