Layana

#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 119 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
889
since 1978

Layana over time

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Rank among girls' names. Layana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,69164
2024#1,966100
2023#1,724119
2022#2,89458
2021#3,29748
2020#3,73539
2019#3,71840
2018#2,61066
2017#2,71363
2016#4,15735
2015#4,85328
2014#5,79722
2013#4,75529
2012#5,39825
2011#5,72823
2010#6,90418
2009#5,09728
2008#7,07318
2007#9,53912
2006#7,14217
2005#11,8348
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First appearance
1978

The first year at least five girls were named Layana! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1979–2001, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Layana
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 725 spots since 2024 (#1,966#2,691)
  • 1,044 spots since 2020 (#3,735#2,691)
  • 2,162 spots since 2015 (#4,853#2,691)
Rise & fade · girls
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,724 (119 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,484
  • Highest: 1 in 13,484 girls born in 2023 were named Layana (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 48.1% of all girls named Layana (428) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#8,562 (1978)#8,562
1980s0
1990s0
2000s106#5,097 (2009)#8,455
2010s349#2,610 (2018)#4,663
2020s428#1,724 (2023)#2,718

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Layana in 1978

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#8,562
6 births · 1 in 255,310 girls

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #8,562Layana6
More about 1978

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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 255,310 of them was named Layana, which outranked 25.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Layana
  1. #7,649Yomaira7
  2. #7,649Yoshika7
  3. #7,649Yumeka7
  4. #8,562Layana6
  5. #8,562Aba6
  6. #8,562Adama6
  7. #8,562Adebola6
  8. #9,750Abena5
  9. #9,750Abigayle5
  10. #9,750Abrian5

Tied with 1,187 names at #8,562; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1978