Leyna
Leyna was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,191 among girls’ names; 2,170 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Leyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leyna?
#3,191 among girls’ names, 2025
Leyna fell from #2,491 in 2015 to #3,191 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 31.1 per million.
117 babies in 2006, the peak
Leyna peaked in 2006, when 117 girls were given it, #1,781 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,191 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,085 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,662 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,808 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,369 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,206 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,980 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,643 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,000 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,496 | 41.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,491 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,404 | 42.5 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,894 | 60.4 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,964 | 56.8 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,080 | 52.9 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,160 | 51.2 |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,521 | 40.8 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,602 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,822 | 60.9 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,781 | 61.5 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,941 | 53.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,410 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,655 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,554 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,066 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,124 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,552 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,812 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,525 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,939 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,832 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,582 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,459 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,167 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,728 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,695 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,596 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,198 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,460 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,619 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,928 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,873 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,947 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,872 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,393 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,273 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,197 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leyna, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,170 Americans ever recorded as Leyna. The median Leyna alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,917 people named Leyna (1,914 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,854 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 784 |
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 Leyna born?
The states with the most babies named Leyna are California, Florida and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,657 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,045 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #2,267 | 0.6× |
Where Leyna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leyna is most over-represented in California: since 1978 it was given 1.5 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 Leyna 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 310,299 babies since 1880, Leyna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 2,611 babies (1.9%), the seventh 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 Leyna
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 Leyna and names like it
- Compare Leyna and LenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLeyna peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leyna since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Leyna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leyna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.