Laythan
Laythan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,266 among boys’ names; 257 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laythan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laythan?
#10,266 among boys’ names, 2025
Laythan fell from #7,343 in 2015 to #10,266 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.1 per million.
24 babies in 2009, the peak
Laythan peaked in 2009, when 24 boys were given it, #4,223 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,266 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,427 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,743 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,087 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,275 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,456 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,600 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,207 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,681 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,343 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 16 | #5,612 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,900 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,617 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,595 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,382 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,223 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,663 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,904 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,200 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,918 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,334 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laythan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laythan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laythan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laythan, and how old are they?
An estimated 255 Americans named Laythan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 223 people named Laythan (2 women and girls, 221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,418 babies since 1880, Laythan is the third most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 72 babies (9.7%), 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 Laythan
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 Laythan and names like it
- Compare Laythan and LathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaythan peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Laythan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laythan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.