girls:
145 births since 2007
#5571 (3rd percentile)
overall:
145 births since 2007
#7594 (2nd percentile)
The name Leyani is the #7,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,571 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 145 births since 2007.
Leyani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (first recorded for girls in 2007). Birth data for Leyani is available in 14 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Leyani reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #924) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leyani ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 78.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leyani".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Leyani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Leyani is pronounced as lay-AH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lay-YUH-nee, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L EY0 AA1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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