Layne

What Layne means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Layne yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #662 vs #1,798 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Layne?

US: Steady: #711 in 2015, #662 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2707 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 434 boys got the name (#636 that year). First in the US records in 1918.

How common

• About 1 in 4,126 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (4.59 per 1,000 boys), WV (1.95 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.11 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Layne is #662 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 72.6% of US babies named Layne were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lane1,383 US · 6 E&W
• Laine33 US · 5 E&W
• Lynn15 US
• Lain15 US
• Lan8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Layne

Boys

• Bridger#701From the word “bridge”^*
• Jax#342Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Maddox#209Editor’s note Down from #148 in 2015 to #209 in 2025 in the US
• Finnegan#526“descendant of Fionnagán”^*
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025
• Crew#256“weir”^*

For a sister

• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Raegan#505Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1963, with 9 babies
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Layne’s. Rank is US 2025.