Laïa

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Laïa is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.2K◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 86K
  • USUnited States1 in 531K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈44K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
151 ●

32K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laia in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States and 22 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork)

Sources 4

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Nordic Names
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Laïa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#21341,36526K rec.1 in 1.2K41KLaia151
AR Argentina—7,9193.1K rec.—671Laia36
FR France—1,265—1 in 54K1.3K——
US United States—6271.3K rec.1 in 531K627Laia103
MX Mexico—36568 rec.——Laia25
BR Brazil—305△4 rec.1 in 694K305Laia4
DE Germany—303226 rec.—1Laia53
GB United Kingdom—247180 rec.—3Laia45
UY Uruguay—242100 rec.—3Laia10
AU Australia—196196 rec.——Laia24
CO Colombia—18629 rec.——Laia18
PY Paraguay—160105 rec.——Laia5

Roughly 41K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French1.5K100%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,474100%

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◐

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

  • Russian given name1 records spelled Laïa17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Iran

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Laia, Лайя, Laya, Лайа, Лаия

4 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.

Over time●

02.557.5102015202010 · 2021

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Laïa in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion), Réunion, 2015–2024
Yearrecords
20155
20165
20185
20195
20205
202110
20225
20235
20245

RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 9 years between 2015–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Laïa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.3K#318
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—31#15,355
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)202011#767
RE RéunionINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)202110#98
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)202310#818
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20248#948
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20227#1,076
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20167#1,092
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20157#1,098
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20186#1,221
GP GuadeloupeINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)20245#42
RE RéunionINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)20245#257

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Laïa?
We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Laïa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Laïa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 41 thousand people bear Laïa in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laia.
How common is Laïa compared with other names?
In Spain, Laïa is the 213th most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.
Is Laïa a male or female name?
Laïa 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.
What does the name Laïa mean?
Recorded meaning: n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laïa” — the 213th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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