girls:
19 births since 2014
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2011
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
24 births since 2011
#7715 (0th percentile)
The name Laylan is the #7,715 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2014. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2011.
Laylan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (2011 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Laylan is available in 4 out of the 10 years between 2011 and 2020 (3 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Laylan has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Laylan were girls. Interestingly, until around 2014, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 2011 to 2013), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2014 to 2020).
For girls, Laylan reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #965) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Laylan reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #881) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laylan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Laylan is pronounced as LAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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