Laleh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laleh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 35K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 255K
- FIFinland1 in 293K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
511 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laleh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 511 | 1 in 651K | 510 | Laleh | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 293 | 1 in 35K | 293 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 19 | 1 in 293K | 36 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
511 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Laleh Bakhtiarb. 1938USIranian academic (1938-2020)
- Laleh Sabourib. 1967IRIranian actress
- Laleh Eskandarib. 1974IRIranian actress
- Laleh Khadivib. 1977USAmerican writer
- Laleh Seddighb. 1977IRIranian racing driver
- Lalehb. 1982SESwedish singer and songwriter
- Laleh Marzbanb. 1994IRIranian actress
- Laleh BehjatCACanadian professor in electrical engineering
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 510 | #20,273 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 293 | #3,983 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 119 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 116 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 107 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 99 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 95 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 89 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 89 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 86 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 81 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Laleh a male or female name?
- Laleh 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 are other forms of the name Laleh?
- In the etymology graph, Lale is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Laleh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 511 people named Laleh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laleh.
- Where is Laleh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laleh is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laleh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Laleh in 2020, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lalehThe 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, “Laleh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.