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Laya

#1,543 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Leia

Laya has been given to 2,102 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #1,543 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Laya, 2025

1 in 24,200

Laya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laya means

Laya is a variant of Leia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,102 girls were recorded with the name Laya between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,543 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,917 in 2020 to #1,543 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,004 in 2015 to #1,543 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.

How common is Laya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,200
137 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,543
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,774 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,774 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Layas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laya was born before 2015 — so the typical Laya is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,102
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (881).

Is Laya 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
+605
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+374
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+461
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (137)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,543
2025

Spellings of Laya

Laya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 13.6% against Laya's 0.03%.

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 Laya is used

Across 2016–2025, Laya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 17,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Texas1 in 14,286
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

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.

Laya around the world

Where Laya 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
    2000–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2022
    #747
    in 2022
  • France
    2000–2025
    #103
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #913
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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 Laya

People whose public names include Laya, 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.

Laya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,543
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 374
Best rank ever
#1,543
2025
Peak year
2025
137 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,102
Count in 2025
137

Names similar to Laya

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

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Names with a curve like Laya

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

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Sibling names for Laya

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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