Layah Girl
How popular is Layah?
#2,933 girl name in 2025
57 baby girls were named Layah in the US in 2025, making it the 2933rd most popular girl name.
Layah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,933 for girls (▲ 344 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 57 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,431 in 2015, #2,468 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (95 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,068 in 2016 |
| First recorded | 1995 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Layah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Laya family of names ranked #825 for girls in 2025 (#927 the year before), with 285 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Layah is most popular
Babies named Layah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.0 per 1,000 (8 girls)
- Illinois: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
Layah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Layah
Questions
- Is Layah a boy or girl name?
- Layah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Layah were girls.
- How popular is the name Layah?
- 57 baby girls were named Layah in the US in 2025, making it the 2933rd most popular girl name.
- When was Layah most popular?
- Layah peaked in 2016, when 95 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,068 in 2016.
- How many people are named Layah?
- 1,365 babies have been named Layah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,357 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Layah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Layah was most common in Florida, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.