Layth
Layth was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,342 among boys’ names; 901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layth?
#2,342 among boys’ names, 2025
Layth rose from #3,126 in 2015 to #2,342 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 34.5 per million.
61 babies in 2024, the peak
Layth peaked in 2024, when 61 boys were given it, #2,331 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,342 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,331 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,453 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,134 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,217 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,382 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,569 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,868 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,346 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,096 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,126 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,740 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,625 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,423 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,564 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,679 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,781 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,385 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,308 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,211 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,570 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,950 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,724 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,415 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,793 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,462 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,914 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,058 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,773 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,858 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,457 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,139 | 4.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,021 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,761 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,867 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,511 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,645 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Layth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Layth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Layth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layth, and how old are they?
An estimated 890 Americans named Layth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,054 people named Layth (6 women and girls, 1,048 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Layth?
Layth is a less common spelling of Laith: SSA has recorded 901 Layth and 3,608 Laith since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,509 babies since 1880, Layth is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 325 babies (18%), again the second 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 Layth
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 Layth and names like it
- Compare Layth and LaithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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