Laylana

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Laylana by the numbers

Laylana was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 9 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Laylana

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Laylana. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Layliananight; an elaborated form of Layla11 in the US (2017)
  • Laylanynight; a form of layla with -ny suffix9 in the US (2017)
  • Laylaanight; a form of Layla5 in the US (2017)
  • Laylani177 in the US (2017)
  • Layana13 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Laylana

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