Layna
Layna was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,312 among girls’ names; 3,196 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Layna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layna?
#2,312 among girls’ names, 2025
Layna fell from #1,879 in 2015 to #2,312 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 61.1 to 49.2 per million.
143 babies in 2014, the peak
Layna peaked in 2014, when 143 girls were given it, #1,531 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,312 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,049 | 58.6 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,082 | 58.0 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,892 | 65.2 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,052 | 57.3 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,835 | 66.2 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,758 | 69.7 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,756 | 68.8 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,741 | 70.7 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,767 | 66.6 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,879 | 61.1 |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,531 | 80.1 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,652 | 73.5 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,677 | 72.1 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,812 | 63.7 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,600 | 76.5 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,702 | 71.3 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,984 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 87 | #2,253 | 45.3 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,872 | 57.3 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,510 | 37.3 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,610 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,622 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,437 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,595 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,306 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,677 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,916 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,670 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,778 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,613 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,187 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,340 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,157 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,443 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,417 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,615 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,195 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,780 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,616 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,363 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,086 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,036 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,446 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,939 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,110 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,684 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,372 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,496 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,823 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,216 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,879 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,068 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,471 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,701 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,619 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,595 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,359 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,957 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,845 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,991 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,777 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,721 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,164 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,719 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,766 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,645 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,932 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,471 | 3.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,729 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Layna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Layna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Layna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layna, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,196 Americans ever recorded as Layna. The median Layna alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,578 people named Layna (2,574 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,607 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 295 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,420 |
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 Layna born?
The states with the most babies named Layna are Florida, Texas and Ohio, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,040 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,592 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,598 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,264 | 0.4× |
Where Layna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Layna is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1947 it was given 1.1 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 Layna 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 85,762 babies since 1880, Layna is the fifth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 1,447 babies (5.5%), again the fifth 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 Layna
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 Layna and names like it
- Compare Layna and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLayna peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layna since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Layna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.