Layah

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lay-Ah in PH Philippines.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Layah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Swahili given name28 records spelled Layah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines

  Also written Lay-Ah

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Layah 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.

• In ban, sail of a boat; to sail in a boat

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In mel, sail

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Layah?

We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Layah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.

In which country does Layah have the most bearers?

We estimate about 874 people bear Layah in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled layah.

Where is Layah most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Layah is densest in France — about 1 in 302 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

Is Layah a male or female name?

Layah 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.