Layana
#2,710 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Layana has been given to 889 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #2,710 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 119 recorded.
Babies named Layana, 2025
1 in 51,800
Layana 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Layana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 51,800
- 64 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 25,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,710
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 35,906 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Layana 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Layana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Layanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Layana was born before 2019 — so the typical Layana is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 889
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (428).
Is Layana 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
- −735
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,045
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,219
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.8%
- Peak was 2023 (119)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.0% average annual change
Spellings of Layana
Layana is not the most common spelling — Layla is, with 20.3% against Layana's 0.14%.
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 Layana is used
Across 2016–2025, Layana was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 38,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 25,000
- 2Michigan1 in 25,000
- 3California1 in 33,333
- 4Illinois1 in 33,333
- 5New York1 in 33,333
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Texas1 in 33,333
- 8Virginia1 in 33,333
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.
Layana around the world
Where Layana 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 & Wales2009–2025#2,138in 2025
- France1996–2025#210in 2025
- Canada2017–2024#1,709in 2024
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Layana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Layana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Layana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.