Läila

given name · Latin script

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

Läila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From Finnish or Norwegian Laila, or from Arabic لَيْلَة (layla, “night”).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 561(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 873
  • DKDenmark1 in 921

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

38,099 people, 2022

Sources
353 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 561 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laila in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 3 more.

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)

Derivation of Läila: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Läila
  1. Finnishor(measured from records)
  2. Arabicلَيْلَةlayla“night”(measured from records)

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From Finnish or Norwegian Laila, or from Arabic لَيْلَة (layla, “night”).

Sources 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Läila 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.

Where Läila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—38,0991 in 5.6K38K—7
US United States—35,8601 in 9.3K36KLaila353
SE Sweden#31311,6891 in 87312KLaila63
NO Norway#1819,7441 in 56131KLaila90
ES Spain—6,3781 in 7.8K6.4KLaila51
DK Denmark#1976,3701 in 9216.4KLaila111
FI Finland—3,6891 in 1.5K9KLaila19
LV Latvia—2,2371 in 8412.2K—31

38,099 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Läila is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Morocco, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Laila, Laïla, Laîla, Láila, Lailà

  • Russian given name70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh

    Also written Лайла, Laila, Layla, Лаила, Lyla

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Läila under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Läila mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From Finnish or Norwegian Laila, or from Arabic لَيْلَة (layla, “night”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 3 other sources.
Is Läila a male or female name?
Läila 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.
In which country does Läila have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Läila, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Läila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Läila is densest in Norway — about 1 in 561 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Läila?
In Brazil, the national register counted 38,099 people named Läila in 2022, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
How common is Läila compared with other names?
In Norway, Läila is the 181st most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

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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, “Läila” — the 181st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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