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Layana

Layana is a girl's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 1,724th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st. About 880 Layanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Layana

By the numbers

Total US births
889
Estimated living today
880
Median age today
6
Peak year
2023
Best rank
1,724th
Rank in 2025
2,691st
First recorded
1978

How old the living Layanas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 889 babies given the name since 1978, about 880 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 820 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Layana is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Layana is most concentrated in Florida (4.5×), Texas (2.2×), California (1.8×), New York (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular girls’ names the year Layana peaked:

All the names of 2023

Layana elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Layana +1 spelling 4,780 168th
Switzerland girls Layana 191 363rd
Belgium girls Layana 182 521st
England and Wales girls Layana 118 1,743rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Layana: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Layana 84 0.007% 509th
French girls Switzerland Layana 106 0.024% 167th
Italian girls Switzerland Layana 1 0.002% 168th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Layana is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 27 of them.

Layana: rank by region

In 2025, Layana was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Layana 264 10
Brussels Layana 244 5

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Layana appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (187th) and Brussels-Capital Region (244th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Layana by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 4 555th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Related names

Layana against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.