Laiba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Galbūt-iš liet. laibas (žr
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləɪbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laiba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 387K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 42K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)
Galbūt-iš liet. laibas (žr. Laiba), plg. laiblnis „laibasis, plonasis“ (LKŽ VII 14)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laiba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #664 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Laiba | 65 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Laiba | 7 |
| US United States | — | 859 | 1 in 387K | 857 | Laiba | 93 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Laiba | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Laiba | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Laiba | 20 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Laiba | 3 |
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 pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Laiba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, genitive singular of laip
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, Iš liet. laibakūjis „turintis laibas, plonas kojas“ (LKŽ VII 12). L LAIBINIS Mrs, Smn 4, Srj 3 (8). Galbūt iš liet. Idibas (Zr. Ldiba), plg. laibinis „laibasis, plonasis“ (LKŽ VII 14).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, sekla liellaiva kravu pārvadāšanai (līdz 30 t) pa upēm; upes buru laiva
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Galdiņš, ar kuru šķērē, kurā ievērtas dzijas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Laiba Ahmed Mahloofb. 2013MVMaldivian badminton 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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 857 | #13,890 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #13,890 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- How do you pronounce Laiba?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɪbə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Laiba a male or female name?
- Laiba 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.
- What does the name Laiba mean?
- Recorded meaning: Galbūt-iš liet. laibas (žr.
- In which country does Laiba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Laiba in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laiba.
- How common is the name Laiba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 859 people named Laiba in 2020, about 1 in 387 thousand residents.
- How common is Laiba compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Laiba is the 664th most common given name of 77,659 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/laibaThe 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, “Laiba” — the 664th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.