Layna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: light; truth
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Layna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 235K(measured from records)
- YTMayotte≈1 in 16K
- FRFrance≈1 in 124K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
2,578 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Mayotte, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
light; truth
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Layna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,578 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Layna | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 902 | 1 in 235K | 902 | Layna | 51 |
| FR France | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 2.2K | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 707K | — | Layna | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 604K | 3 | — | 5 |
| CU Cuba | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Layna | 6 |
| YT Mayotte | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | — | — |
2,578 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Layna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Luz, verdad
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Truth
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Layna Luxmi Chiniahb. 2008MUbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,259 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.2K | #388 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 902 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 901 | #8,876 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 512 | #7,289 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 508 | #14,174 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 68 | — |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2021 | 10 | #47 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2024 | 5 | #153 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2023 | 5 | #181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #6,259 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Layna?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Layna mean, and where does it come from?
- light; truth Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Layna a male or female name?
- Layna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Layna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Layna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled layna.
- How common is the name Layna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,578 people named Layna in 2020, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Layna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laynaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Layna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.