Laysha
Laysha was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,541 among girls’ names; 887 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laysha?
#10,541 among girls’ names, 2025
Laysha fell from #7,458 in 2015 to #10,541 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.6 per million.
98 babies in 2004, the peak
Laysha peaked in 2004, when 98 girls were given it, #1,917 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,541 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,889 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,016 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,860 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,930 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,710 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,552 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,529 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,573 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,173 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,458 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,886 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,540 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,647 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,646 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,455 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,885 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,823 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,667 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,120 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,216 | 44.9 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,917 | 53.4 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,330 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,364 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,422 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,043 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,966 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,080 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,713 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,226 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laysha, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Laysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 665 people named Laysha (664 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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 Laysha born?
The states with the most babies named Laysha are California, Texas and New York, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 155 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 58 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 22 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Laysha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laysha is most over-represented in California: since 1990 it was given 1.3 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 Laysha 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 10,122 babies since 1880, Laysha is the sixth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 30 babies (30%), the second most given that year.
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 Laysha
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 Laysha and names like it
- Compare Laysha and LashayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaysha peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laysha since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Laysha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laysha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.