Girls' name · since 2012
Layanah
Since 2012, U.S. Social Security records show 40 babies named Layanah, peaking in 2014. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #37,589 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,425 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
40 babies have been named Layanah since 2012, making it today's #14425 girls' name.
Layanah has 40 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14425 as of the latest data, more common than 17% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #37,589 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,425 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 40 born since 2012
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Layanah ranks #37,589 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,425 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 40 born since 2012, peaking in the 2020s.
- #37,589 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,425 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
Layanah's 40 recorded births place it above 47.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Layanah compares
40 13th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Layanah's all-time total is 89% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Layanah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 40 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Layanah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Layanah splits its recorded history at 2023: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2012 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2014 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Layanah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2014)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Layanah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (21 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Layanah's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Layanah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
19 births
- 2020s
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 21 births (53% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Layanah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Layanah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.