Laina

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Laina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Helena
• Delaney
• Isla
• Ella
• Lorraine
• Melanie
• Helen
• Josie
• Addie
• Leila
• Emily
• Eliza

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Laina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Mexico

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Laína, Lâina, Láina, Lainà, Lainá

• English given name17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Danish

  Also written Lainà, Laïna, Lainá, Laína, Laina'

• French given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Burkina Faso

  Also written Laïna, Laîna, Lainà, Laïnà, lainÃ

• Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Spain

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Lainà, Laína

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Laïna, Laína

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Laina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, A kind of mastic

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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.

• Laina Laineb. 1890FIFinnish actress
• Laina Rinneb. 1917FIFinnish writer
• Laina Badianeb. 1985FRFrench basketball player (born 1985)
• Laina Pretas por Salvadorb. 1987BRBrazilian politician, holder of collective mandate of councilor in Salvador
• Laina Morrisb. 1991USAmerican Internet celebrity
• Laina Remundb. 2005CHSwiss diver
• Laina GearyCAchemist

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Laina?

In Portuguese /lajnɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Laina a male or female name?

Laina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and France (INSEE, 2019).

What does the name Laina mean, and where does it come from?

loan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How common is the name Laina?

In the United States, the national register counted 3,001 people named Laina in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.

In which country does Laina have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Laina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laina.

Where is Laina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laina is densest in Finland — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.