Laythan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- LAY-than
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Laythan is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
Where does Laythan come from?
Modern: modern coinage, perhaps a rhyme on Nathan
Is Laythan a girl's or a boy's name?
Laythan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Laythan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Laythan, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Laythan in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 66 boys in the US were given Laythan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,878, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Laythan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,801 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,476 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,507 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,158 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,482 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,618 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Laythan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Lachlan, Ronan, Declan, Kylan, Callan, Finnegan, Braylen, Raylan, Rayden, Zayden, Raiden
Other spellings of Laythan
Names related to Laythan
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from 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, “Laythan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laythan, updated 20 October 2026.