Laia
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laia is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Eulàlia.
- 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 ●
- Sources
- 151 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 10 countries
32K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
a diminutive of the female given name Eulàlia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #213 | 41,365 | 26K rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 41K | Laia | 151 |
| AR Argentina | — | 7,919 | 3.1K rec. | — | 671 | Laia | 36 |
| FR France | — | 1,265 | — | 1 in 54K | 1.3K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 627 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 531K | 627 | Laia | 103 |
| MX Mexico | — | 365 | 68 rec. | — | 14 | Laia | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 305△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 694K | 305 | Laia | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 303 | 226 rec. | — | 1 | Laia | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 247 | 180 rec. | — | 3 | Laia | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 242 | 100 rec. | — | 3 | Laia | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 196 | 196 rec. | — | — | Laia | 24 |
| CO Colombia | — | 186 | 29 rec. | — | — | Laia | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 160 | 105 rec. | — | — | Laia | 5 |
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●
- Spanish144K68%
- Catalan41K20%
- Portuguese6K3%
- English5.5K3%
- French4.9K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 143,755 | 68% |
| Catalan | 41,400 | 20% |
| Portuguese | 6,001 | 3% |
| English | 5,477 | 3% |
| French | 4,871 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Laia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, wdbl. Vom. katalanischer Herkunft, alte
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Basque, n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork)
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Basque, abbreviation of Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia (“Party of the Revolutionary Patriotic Workers”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, those who share the same moral traits or characteristics: ilk, variety, race, kind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nsn, plant species, family Zingiberaceae; several types
as a wordAustronesian 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 45 |
| 2016 | 55 |
| 2017 | 58 |
| 2018 | 88 |
| 2019 | 88 |
| 2020 | 80 |
| 2021 | 91 |
| 2022 | 130 |
| 2023 | 99 |
| 2024 | 94 |
| 2025 | 85 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pablo Lasob. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish former basketball player and coach
- Laia Marullb. 1973ESSpanish actress
- Laia Aguilarb. 1976ESwriter, scriptwriter of television series, and Spanish teacher in the Catalan language
- Laia Palaub. 1979ESSpanish basketball player (born 1979)
- Laia Costab. 1985ESSpanish actress
- Laia Sanzb. 1985ESSpanish motorcycle racer
- Laia Ponsb. 1993ESSpanish synchronized swimmer
- Laia Manzanaresb. 1994ESSpanish actress
- Laia Aleixandrib. 2000ESSpanish association football player
- Laia Codinab. 2000ESSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 52 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41K | #195 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38K | #116 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 671 | #214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 627 | #17,454 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 305 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 296 | #18,825 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 203 | #13,908 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 165 | #28,171 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 144 | #4,191 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 94 | #5,609 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 90 | #8,242 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 85 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 309 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Laia?
- We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Laia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Laia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 41 thousand people bear Laia in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laia.
- How common is Laia compared with other names?
- In Spain, Laia is the 213th most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.
- Is Laia a male or female name?
- Laia 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 Laia mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Eulàlia
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About this data
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, “Laia” — the 213th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.