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Layna

#2,312 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Layna has been given to 3,196 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #2,312 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Layna, 2025

1 in 42,000

Layna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Layna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Layna means

Layna is a given name.

The naming story behind Layna

Wikidata records Layna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q132445962, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,196 girls were recorded with the name Layna between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,531 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,835 in 2020 to #2,312 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,879 in 2015 to #2,312 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 Layna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,312
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Layna 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Layna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Layna was born before 2011 — so the typical Layna is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (1,230).

Is Layna 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
−263
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−477
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−433
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.2%
Peak was 2014 (143)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,531
2014

Spellings of Layna

Layna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.9% against Layna's 0.07%.

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 Layna is used

Across 2016–2025, Layna was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 22,017 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  2. 2Ohio1 in 10,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 12,500
  4. 4Iowa1 in 16,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 16,667
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

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.

Layna around the world

Where Layna 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
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2012–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1995–2025
    #488
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Layna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,312
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 477
Best rank ever
#1,531
2014
Peak year
2014
143 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,196
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Layna

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

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Names with a curve like Layna

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

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Sibling names for Layna

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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