Layna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 119 babies a year in the US.
Layna by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Layna. In the US, 119 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 143 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Layna
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 Layna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Lanabright or fair; a form of Helen or Alana185 in England and Wales (2025)
- Laynefrom the lane; a form of Lane443 in the US (2017)
- Launafrom laurel; a form of Laura or Laurel16 in the US (2017)
- Layianight; a form of Layla5 in the US (2017)
- Laina91 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Layna
Names that are said the same way as Layna, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Layna
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