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Layan

The girl's name Layan has been in the national records since 1994, with 3,225 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 827th. About 3,200 Layans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Layan

By the numbers

Total US births
3,225
Estimated living today
3,200
Median age today
6
Peak year
2025
Best rank
827th
Rank in 2025
827th
First recorded
1994

How old the living Layans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,225 babies given the name since 1994, about 3,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,000 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 Layan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Layan is most concentrated in Michigan (4.0×), Virginia (2.4×), Illinois (2.3×), New York (2.1×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Layan peaked:

All the names of 2025

Layan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Layan 973 279th
Spain girls Layan 880 82nd
France boys Layan +1 spelling 875 560th
France girls Layan +1 spelling 720 395th
Belgium girls Layan 394 99th
Italy girls Layan 221
Switzerland girls Layan 77 424th
Switzerland boys Layan 40 829th
Ireland girls Layan 38 443rd
Scotland girls Layan 33 453rd
Poland girls Layan 2 birth registrations 706th

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.

Layan: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Layan 51 0.004% 494th
German boys Switzerland Layan 6 0.000% 1,084th
French boys Switzerland Layan 34 0.008% 372nd
French girls Switzerland Layan 24 0.006% 293rd
Italian girls Switzerland Layan 2 0.003% 164th

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, Layan is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.02% of children were given it – 25 of them.

Layan: rank by region

In 2025, Layan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Layan 121 48
Wallonia Layan 226 12
Brussels Layan 57 16

In 2024, Layan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain, and first in 1 of them.

Region Spelling Place Children
Melilla Layan 1 13

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Layan appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (49th), Brussels-Capital Region (57th), Province of Flemish Brabant (97th), Province of Liège (113th), Province of West Flanders (186th) and Province of East Flanders (214th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – 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.

Layan by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 109 132nd

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

Layan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Layan 40 41

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Layan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,284 women called Layan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Melilla Layan 42 0.970 210
Ceuta Layan 14 0.338 434
Girona Layan 72 0.174 543
Tarragona Layan 76 0.174 561
Almería Layan 61 0.162 560
Lleida Layan 30 0.135 659

Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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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.