Layah — #3297 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Layah

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,306 babies named Layah between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Layah currently holds the #3297 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 95 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Layah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 724 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Layah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 111 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Layah in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Layah 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 1,306 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.