Laysa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Laysa has been given to 88 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Laysa, 2012

1 in 732,000

Laysa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laysa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laysa means

Laysa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Laysa is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Laysa between 1985 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2003; its best national rank was #8,820 in 2003.

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.

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How common is Laysa?

Laysa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,051 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Laysa 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 2012 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laysa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laysas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laysa was born before 2003 — so the typical Laysa is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 71.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 88; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 71.6% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Laysa 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (12)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,820; 2003

Spellings of Laysa

Laysa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 31.5% against Laysa's <0.01%.

Lisa31.5%967,229
Laura26.1%801,811
Kayla11.3%346,570
Layla4.2%129,136
Maya4.0%123,587
Lana1.9%57,434
Lyla1.6%49,294
Jayla1.5%46,432

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.

Laysa around the world

Where Laysa 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.

France
2001–2013
#6,225
in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Laysa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,820; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 12 that year
First recorded: 1985
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 88
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Laysa

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

Layli Laylyn Layona Laylie Layaan Laykyn Laylen Layza Laylin Layci Layia Layney Layke Laylana Layni Laylee Layelle Layali Layanne Layra Layce Laylia Layoni Aleysa

Sibling names for Laysa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Sydnee

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary

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