Layana Girl
How popular is Layana?
#2,691 girl name in 2025
64 baby girls were named Layana in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
Layana popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,691 for girls (▼ 725 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 64 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+129% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,852 in 2015, #3,734 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (119 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,724 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1978 |
| 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 |
Layana counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Layana family of names ranked #1,380 for girls in 2025 (#1,019 the year before), with 121 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Layana | 64 | 53% |
| Layanna | 33 | 27% |
| Laiana | 13 | 11% |
| Laianna | 5 | 4% |
| Layanah | 6 | 5% |
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 Layana is most popular
Babies named Layana per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Michigan: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Virginia: 0.1 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Layana by decade
Girl names about as popular as Layana
Questions
- Is Layana a boy or girl name?
- Layana is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Layana were girls.
- How popular is the name Layana?
- 64 baby girls were named Layana in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
- When was Layana most popular?
- Layana peaked in 2023, when 119 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,724 in 2023.
- How many people are named Layana?
- 889 babies have been named Layana in the US since 1880. We estimate about 885 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Layana most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Layana was most common in Michigan, 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.