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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Layne

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#662

up +34 places

2025 births

414

up +25 births

All-time births

14,355

3% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
434 births
Best rank
#564
in 1959
First recorded
1918
#3,551 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
103 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2021434#637Peak
  2. 2012432#591
  3. 2011431#583
  4. 2023423#648
  5. 2014419#628

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #564 in 1959 · peak births 434 in 2021

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 72% boys■ 28% girls

14,355 boys · 5,679 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Layne has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.