Laïla
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
Laïla is a female 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”).
- NONorway1 in 561(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 841
- SESweden1 in 873
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 Laïla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- 1 in 561 (inferred from the name graph)
38,099 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)- Finnishor(measured from records)
- 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”).
Cited for this meaning 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 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laïla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 38,099 | 1 in 5.6K | 38K | — | 7 |
| US United States | — | 35,860 | 1 in 9.3K | 36K | Laila | 353 |
| SE Sweden | #313 | 11,689 | 1 in 873 | 12K | Laila | 63 |
| NO Norway | #181 | 9,744 | 1 in 561 | 31K | Laila | 90 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,378 | 1 in 7.8K | 6.4K | Laila | 51 |
| DK Denmark | #197 | 6,370 | 1 in 921 | 6.4K | Laila | 111 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,689 | 1 in 1.5K | 9K | Laila | 19 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,237 | 1 in 841 | 2.2K | — | 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laïla 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 Laïla a male or female name?
- Laïla is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Laïla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Laïla, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Norway and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Laïla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laïla is densest in Norway — about 1 in 561 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laïla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 38,099 people named Laïla in 2022, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Laïla compared with other names?
- In Norway, Laïla is the 181st most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la%C3%AFlaThe 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, “Laïla” — the 181st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.