Laïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lais/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laïs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Lais.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 576K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 46K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
164,122 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lais in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal and 4 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)
Borrowed from German Lais.
Sources 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laïs 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 | #253 | 164,122 | 1 in 1.3K | 164K | Lais | 179 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Lais | 11 |
| US United States | — | 577 | 1 in 576K | 559 | Lais | 171 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Lais | 43 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Lais | 28 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Lais | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | Lais | 8 |
164,122 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
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
- How do you pronounce Laïs?
- A machine transcription gives /lais/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Laïs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Lais. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and 4 other sources.
- Is Laïs a male or female name?
- Laïs 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 Laïs have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Laïs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lais.
- Where is Laïs most common?
- Laïs is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laïs?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 164,122 people named Laïs in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Laïs compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Laïs is the 253rd most common given name of 474,894 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%AFsThe 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, “Laïs” — the 253rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.