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Laith

#896 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Layth

Laith has been given to 3,608 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #896 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 266 recorded.

Babies named Laith, 2025

1 in 12,500

Laith over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laith: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Layth

Arabic and surname transfer

What Laith means

Laith is a alternate transcription of Layth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laith → Layth. The family’s meaning is “lion”, recorded in the naming reference for Layth.

Origin, language, and formation

Laith is used in English. Its origins include Arabic and surname transfer.

Laith is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Layth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,608 boys were recorded with the name Laith between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 266 in 2025; its best national rank was #896 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,207 in 2020 to #896 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,373 in 2015 to #896 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Laith?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
266 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,420
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#896
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laith sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laiths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laith was born before 2016 — so the typical Laith is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,608
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (1,331).

Is Laith rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+311
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+477
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (266)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#896
2025

Spellings of Laith

Laith is not the most common spelling — Keith is, with 92.3% against Laith's 0.76%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Laith is used

Across 2016–2025, Laith was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 8,575 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

141 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,439
  2. 2New York1 in 4,167
  3. 3Illinois1 in 4,348
  4. 4Virginia1 in 5,263
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 6,667
  6. 6California1 in 7,692
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 8,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Laith around the world

Where Laith ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #254
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2001–2025
    #2,169
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #450
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Laith

People whose public names include Laith, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Laith by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#896
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 311
Best rank ever
#896
2025
Peak year
2025
266 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,608
Count in 2025
266

Names similar to Laith

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Laith

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laith, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JosiasAdlerBoazAhmirKyrenIsaOsirisGenesisTiagoYaseenYahyaYasir

Sibling names for Laith

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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