Layne

Layne is the 2,731st most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,859 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,200.

By the numbers

People: 12,859
Rank: 2,731st
How common: 1 in 23,200
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Topographic surname from lane.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Layne described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Layne

Kiki Layne (born 1991)American actress
Tamirat Layne (born 1955)Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia

People named Layne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Layne

Also a first name

Layne has been given to 20,034 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.