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Lavayah

Gender
Girl
Say it
la-VAY-uh
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Lavayah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Lavayah come from?

Modern: modern coinage with the -ayah ending

Is Lavayah a girl's or a boy's name?

Lavayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lavayah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,935among girls
Babies in 2025
4about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Lavayah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 7 girls.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

2012Busiest: 7 in 20222025
Lavayah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20244#4,907
20234#4,915
20227#3,347
20210–
20206#3,630
20194#4,904
20180–
20170–
20163#6,009
20150–
20140–
20130–
20124#5,058

How popular is Lavayah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Lavayah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.

2025 had fewer girls named Lavayah than any year since 2011.

Half of all the girls named Lavayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2007Busiest: 18 in 20222025
Lavayah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202410#9,551
20237#12,192
202218#6,459
202115#7,245
202010#9,541
201913#8,134
20189#10,540
201711#9,337
20167#12,871
201516#7,263
201412#8,961
201312#9,031
201211#9,706
20110–
20107#13,442
20096#15,236
20080–
20076#15,485

Names like Lavayah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lavayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lavayah, updated 20 October 2026.