Layden
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to boys 93.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 85 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,131since 1999
Layden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,437 | 53 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | — | #2,748 | 44 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,417 | 53 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | — | #2,063 | 68 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,009 | 68 | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #1,756 | 85 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #2,623 | 47 |
| 2008 | — | #2,374 | 54 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Layden! It came in at #7,139, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Layden
- 1,124 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #4,396)
- 1,959 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #4,396)
- 2,413 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2012 at #1,756 (85 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,317 boys born in 2012 were named Layden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 56.1% of all boys named Layden (634) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 8 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,139 |
| 2000s | 255 | #2,374 (2008) | #3,761 |
| 2010s | 634 | #1,756 (2012) | #2,193 |
| 2020s | 234 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,217 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Layden in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 160,096 of them was named Layden, which outranked 50.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,109Ziyanna12
- #9,109Zsofia12
- #9,109Zyaira12
- #9,711Layden11
- #9,711Aaliyana11
- #9,711Aariya11
- #9,711Aashvi11
- #10,429Aailyah10
- #10,429Aaira10
- #10,429Aaleeyah10
Tied with 717 names at #9,711; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 22,317 of them was named Layden, which outranked 87.7% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,742Ramses86
- #1,742Rayce86
- #1,742Trae86
- #1,756Layden85
- #1,756Aksel85
- #1,756Andrei85
- #1,756Ayman85
- #1,775Adyn84
- #1,775Angus84
- #1,775Jamere84
Tied with 18 names at #1,756; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.