Layah
#2,948 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Layah has been given to 1,365 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #2,948 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Layah, 2025
1 in 58,200
Layah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Layah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 58,200
- 57 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 28,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,948
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 40,315 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Layah 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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Layah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Layahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Layah was born before 2015 — so the typical Layah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,365
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (726).
Is Layah 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
- +366
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −462
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −499
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.76×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.0%
- Peak was 2016 (95)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.3% average annual change
Spellings of Layah
Layah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 51.8% against Layah's 0.06%.
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 Layah is used
Across 2016–2025, Layah was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 30,419 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 2California1 in 25,000
- 3Florida1 in 25,000
- 4Texas1 in 25,000
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Michigan1 in 33,333
- 7Illinois1 in 50,000
- 8New York1 in 50,000
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.
Layah around the world
Where Layah 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,035in 2025
- Ireland2014–2018#629in 2018
- France2008–2025#1,035in 2025
- Canada2008–2024#2,104in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Layah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Layah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Layah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.