Laïa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laïa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork).
- ESSpain1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 80K
- USUnited States1 in 526K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
41,365 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laia in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States 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)
n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork)
Sources 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laïa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #290 | 41,365 | 1 in 1.2K | 41K | Laia | 168 |
| US United States | — | 632 | 1 in 526K | 627 | Laia | 123 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 671 | Laia | 35 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 305 | 1 in 694K | 305 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 120 | 1 in 28K | 120 | Laia | 9 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Laia | 6 |
| AD Andorra | #179 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Laia | 10 |
41,365 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #318 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laïa mean, and where does it come from?
- n. ‘laia’ (a certain agricultural tool, a large two-pronged fork) Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- Is Laïa a male or female name?
- Laïa 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 Laïa have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Laïa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laia.
- Where is Laïa most common?
- Laïa is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laïa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 41,365 people named Laïa, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Laïa compared with other names?
- In Spain, Laïa is the 290th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la%C3%AFaThe 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, “Laïa” — the 290th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.