Laima
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Lithuanian: luck (archaism, sometimes still used in poetry)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɐjmɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 345(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 872
- USUnited States1 in 892K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
luck (archaism, sometimes still used in poetry)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Laima is read(measured from records)
Laima is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Lithuanian37%
luck (archaism, sometimes still used in poetry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Laima in English.
- Latvian8.8%
happiness; alternative form of laime
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Baltu tautu mitoloģijā - laimes un likteņa dieviete, dzemdību aizgādne, govju sargātāja; folklorā parasti ir antropomorfs tēls, bāreņu aizstāve, grūtnieču, dzemdētāju sargātāja, laimīgas ģimenes dzīves noteicēja, padomdevēja darbā; tai bija tiesības lemt par cilvēka mūža ilgumu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ilūkstes novada Šēderes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Laime" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
apdzīvota vieta ASV ("Lima"), Montānas štatā, <10000 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- Finnish5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Laima in Finnish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #77 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 345 | listed | Laima | 85 |
| LV Latvia | #298 | 2,158 | 1 in 872 | 2.2K | Laima | 53 |
| US United States | — | 373 | 1 in 892K | 368 | Laima | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 279K | listed | Laima | 60 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 347K | 1 | Laima | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 562 | Laima | 14 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 41 | Laima | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 16 | 1 in 22K | 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: the lt-vlkk-vardai register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Laima is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plg. liet. Laimas, Laimė, Laimus (žr.), lat. Laima (LAG 182), Laime (ten pat, 256). Galbūt sietina su liet. laima, Uima, laimas, laimė, laimė „pasitenkinimo, gerovės, gyvenimo pilnumos, džiaugsmo būvis; likimas, dalia“ (LKŽ VU 52—53), laimus, Idimus „laimingas“ (ten pat, 57), lat. laima, laime „laimė, likimas“ (L W n 407-409).
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Laima Tabakab. 1924LVLatvian botanist (1924 - )
- Liudvika Laima Griciūtėb. 1926LTLithuanian oncologist
- Laima Štrimaitytėb. 1946LTLithuanian actor
- Laima Balaišytėb. 1948RUSoviet table tennis player
- Laima Vaikuleb. 1954LVLatvian actor and singer
- Laima Liucija Andrikienėb. 1958LTLithuanian politician
- Laima Mogenienėb. 1959LTLithuanian politician
- Laima Kotab. 1962LVLatvian writer (born 1962)
- Laima Zilporytėb. 1967LTSoviet cyclist
- Laima Adlytėb. 1971LTLithuanian draughts 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).
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.2K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.1K | #254 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 562 | #2,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 368 | #25,436 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 41 | #1,179 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #25,436 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2021 | 1 | #1 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laima mean, and where does it come from?
- luck (archaism, sometimes still used in poetry) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Laima?
- In the etymology graph, Laimonis is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Laima?
- A machine transcription gives /lɐjmɐ/ (IPA) for Lithuanian.
- Is Laima a male or female name?
- Laima 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 Laima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Laima in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laima.
- How common is the name Laima?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 2,158 people named Laima, about 1 in 872 residents.
- How common is Laima compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Laima is the 77th most common given name of 5,944 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laimaThe 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, “Laima” — the 77th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.