Layan
Layan was given to 329 girls in 2025, #831 among girls’ names; 3,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Layan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layan?
#831 among girls’ names, 2025
Layan rose from #1,450 in 2015 to #831 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.20 per 1,000.
329 babies in 2025, the peak
Layan peaked in 2025, when 329 girls were given it, #831 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 245 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 329 | #831 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 245 | #1,029 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 232 | #1,072 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 247 | #1,037 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 184 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,110 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 224 | #1,100 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,347 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 175 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,450 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,802 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,403 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,554 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,027 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,356 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,509 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,392 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,225 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,259 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,701 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,096 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,571 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,225 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Layan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Layan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Layan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layan, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,225 Americans ever recorded as Layan. The median Layan alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,611 people named Layan (1,593 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Layan born?
The states with the most babies named Layan are New York, California and Michigan, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 53 | #322 | 1.9× |
| California | 50 | #631 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 35 | #263 | 3.7× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,022 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 23 | #463 | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 17 | #477 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 15 | #659 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #748 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #525 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,501 | 0.7× |
Where Layan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Layan is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1994 it was given 3.7 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 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 Layan 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,867 babies since 1880, Layan is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 329 of their 384 babies (86%), 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 Layan
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 Layan and names like it
- Compare Layan and LanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLayan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Layan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.