Layan

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Layan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Layan: Recorded every year since 2003, its highest recorded position is #383, and it stood at #443 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#383highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#2084
2006	#3548
2007	#2410
2008	#2292
2009	#1752
2010	#1815
2011	#1225
2012	#1297
2013	#1291
2014	#1204
2015	#1139
2016	#1112
2017	#889
2018	#902
2019	#601
2020	#617
2021	#555
2022	#454
2023	#471
2024	#383

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2003 to 2024.

In 2024: #383 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2003–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2003
First recorded at #4373 among girls in England and Wales in 2003 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2024
Highest recorded position: #383 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2003–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Layan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2003, and has registered 810 births with the name.

Layan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Layan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#383 (2024)	#383 (2024)	22 of 22	810 (2003–2024)	113 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2016)	#443 (2025)	#443 (2025)	7 of 10	38 (2016–2025)	8 (2025)

Layan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Layan in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	55	7 of 10	8
2010s	331	10 of 10	33
2020sbusiest	424	5 of 10	85

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 85 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 29, from 84 to 113.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Layan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2003 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #383 in England and Wales in 2024.

Layan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#383	113	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#471	84	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#454	93	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#555	72	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#617	62	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#601	66	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#902	41	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#889	43	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2003 and 2025, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #383, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 113 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Layke · #2125, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kaiya · #383, 28y
Laci · #383, 20y
Rea · #384, 28y
Auryn · #379, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Laci · #383, 20y
Scarlett-Rose · #383, 19y
Teaghan · #383, 10y
Alyana · #384, 14y

Layan was ranked #383 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Layan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Layan without appearing here.

Layan moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1204 and #5691.
Freddie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3548 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3548 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #4564.
Meabh Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3548 and #2781 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2410 and #5201.

Moved ahead of Layan

Fiadh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #454 and #468 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #471 and #404.

Moved the opposite way to Layan

Abigail Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 while Aimee went from #51 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 while Aisling went from #637 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 while Alex went from #230 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Layan

Ada Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 and Ada from #1628 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 and Alma from #2727 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 and Amelia from #21 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Layan went from #4373 to #383 and Aria from #1472 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2003 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #383 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Layan

Layan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Layan across 2 official records

Layan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Layan across 2 official records

Layan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Layan

Layan and the names beside it

Layan moved ahead of

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