How popular is “Layah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Layah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Layah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Layah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Layah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1995	8	0.000002185	8	100%
1996	6	0.000001645	6	100%
1997	6	0.000001655	6	100%
1998	8	0.000002175	8	100%
1999	9	0.000002436	9	100%
2000	10	0.000002646	10	100%
2001	14	0.00000374	14	100%
2002	10	0.000002675	10	100%
2003	20	0.00000526	20	100%
2004	19	0.000004973	19	100%
2005	18	0.000004682	18	100%
2006	28	0.000007078	28	100%
2007	33	0.000008255	33	100%
2008	33	0.000008396	33	100%
2009	57	0.000014921	57	100%
2010	38	0.000010282	38	100%
2011	56	0.00001531	56	100%
2012	75	0.000020507	75	100%
2013	79	0.00002167	79	100%
2014	85	0.000022933	85	100%
2015	75	0.000020265	75	100%
2016	95	0.000025895	95	100%
2017	72	0.000020133	72	100%
2018	81	0.000023038	81	100%
2019	68	0.000019591	68	100%
2020	70	0.000020954	70	100%
2021	66	0.000019481	66	100%
2022	52	0.00001537	52	100%
2023	67	0.000020234	67	100%
2024	48	0.000014421	48	100%

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