Lae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Lyman-alpha emitter
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 385as La(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.9Kas La
- MAMorocco≈1 in 3.7Kas La
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lae itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named La, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est., as La
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled La in TN Tunisia, BR Brazil, MA Morocco and 4 more and Lä in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of Lyman-alpha emitter.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lae counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #15 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | La | 19 |
| CN China | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | La | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | La | 148 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,408as La | 1 in 19K | 11K | La | 109 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | La | 30 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,741as Laz | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Lä | 76 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 29 | La | 94 |
| TN Tunisia | #858 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | La | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lae 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 English, port. New Guinea
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In bbc, brother-in-law (wife's brother or sister's husband)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, genitive singular of lá (“day”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, forehead
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, Lae (a city, the provincial capital of Morobe, Papua New Guinea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Erling Laeb. 1947NONorwegian politician
- Gilles Laéb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Pyong Leeb. 1992BRnot in their usual nameYouTuber
- Solveig LaeNOBusinessperson from Norway
- Kalle LaeFIFinnish singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 23 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lae mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Lyman-alpha emitter. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lae?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lae a male or female name?
- Lae is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named La in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lae?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,408 people named La, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Lae compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Lae is the 15th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lae?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Lae” — the 15th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.