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Layan

#831 in 2025Girls' name

Soft, delicate

Layan has been given to 3,225 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #831 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 329 recorded.

Babies named Layan, 2025

1 in 10,100

Layan over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Layan: meaning, origin, and history

Soft, delicate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Layan means

Layan means “soft, delicate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Layan is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,225 girls were recorded with the name Layan between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 329 in 2025; its best national rank was #831 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,110 in 2020 to #831 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,450 in 2015 to #831 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 Layan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
329 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,890
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#831
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Layan 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,986 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Layan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Layans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Layan was born before 2019 — so the typical Layan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,225
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (1,458).

Is Layan 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
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+279
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+619
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (329)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#831
2025

Spellings of Layan

Layan is not the most common spelling — Lynn is, with 21.5% against Layan's 0.38%.

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 Layan is used

Across 2016–2025, Layan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 1,250 girls, against 1 in 6,159 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

280 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 1,250
  2. 2New York1 in 2,703
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,030
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,030
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 4,762
  6. 6Ohio1 in 5,000
  7. 7California1 in 6,667
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 7,143

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.

Layan around the world

Where Layan 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
    2003–2025
    #279
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #443
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #460
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS 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.

Layan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#831
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 279
Best rank ever
#831
2025
Peak year
2025
329 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,225
Count in 2025
329

Names similar to Layan

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

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Names with a curve like Layan

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

AaryaAmyraEmilianaYunaRowynMaelynnSiyaZaylaSeraphinaReyaVaydaImogen

Sibling names for Layan

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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