Laiyah
#11,474 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laiyah has been given to 736 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,474 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 112 recorded.
Babies named Laiyah, 2025
1 in 414,000
Laiyah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Laiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,474
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laiyah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laiyah was born before 2016 — so the typical Laiyah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 78.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 736
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 78.4% of all recorded uses (577).
Is Laiyah 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
- −3,253
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,895
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −9,628
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.07×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.1%
- Peak was 2015 (112)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.8% average annual change
Spellings of Laiyah
Laiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 17.8% against Laiyah's 0.12%.
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 Laiyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Laiyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 46,587 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 12,500
- 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 4Virginia1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 50,000
- 6Texas1 in 50,000
- 7California1 in 100,000
- 8Michigan1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Laiyah around the world
Where Laiyah 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 & Wales2014–2018#5,666in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Laiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Laiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.