Laica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of laico
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/laika/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 217K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of laico
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Laica | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 79 | Laica | 11 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Laica | 50 |
| CO Colombia | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Laica | 11 |
| ES Spain | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 88 | Laica | 27 |
| GA Gabon | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Laica | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Laica | 2 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Laica 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.
In Latin, inflection of lāicus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 88 | #30,189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 88 | #30,016 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Laica mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of laico Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Laica?
- A machine transcription gives /laika/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Laica a male or female name?
- Laica 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 Laica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Laica in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laica.
- How common is the name Laica?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43 people named Laica in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Laica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laicaThe 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, “Laica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.