Layne — #696 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Layne

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,935 babies named Layne between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Layne currently holds the #696 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 432 babies received it in a single year. Layne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,522 additional births since 1939.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Layne performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,869 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Layne shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,206 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Layne in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Layne 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 13,935 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.