Laïma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laïma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From laime (“luck”). Laima as laimė = happyness.
- LVLatvia1 in 872(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 22K
- SESweden1 in 101K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 872 (inferred from the name graph)
2,158 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laima in LV Latvia, US United States.
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)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From laime (“luck”). Laima as laimė = happyness
Sources 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laïma 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.
2,158 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); e-services.md — living 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laïma mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From laime (“luck”). Laima as laimė = happyness Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 2 other sources.
- Is Laïma a male or female name?
- Laïma 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 Laïma have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Laïma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laima.
- Where is Laïma most common?
- Laïma is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 872 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laïma?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 2,158 people named Laïma, about 1 in 872 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la%C3%AFmaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Laïma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.