Laurila
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic and ornamental name composed of the personal name Lauri + the local suffix -la, i.e
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləʊɹilə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laurila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 472(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 36K
- NONorway1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Laurila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 472 (inferred from the name graph)
11,816 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лаурила in FI Finland, RU Russia.
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)
topographic and ornamental name composed of the personal name Lauri + the local suffix -la, i.e. ‘Lauri’s place’. This name occurs in eastern and western Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laurila 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.
11,816 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling laurila. 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Laurila 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 Finnish, a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elli Laurilab. 1882FIFinnish politician (1882-1966)
- Erkki Laurilab. 1913FIFinnish physicist
- Ritva Laurilab. 1932FIFinnish politician and journalist
- Heikki Laurilab. 1934FIFinnish guitarist (1934-2021)
- Kalevi Laurilab. 1937FIcross-country skier
- Ritva Mustonenb. 1940FInot in their usual nameFinnish vocalist
- Olavi Laurilab. 1940FIFinnish archer
- Mari Laurilab. 1963FIFinnish musician
- Harri Laurilab. 1965FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Liisa Laurilab. 1974FIFinnish synchronized swimmer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #127 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 5.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 290 | #67,943 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 287 | #3,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 269 | #68,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #21,999 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #119,695 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Laurila come from?
- topographic and ornamental name composed of the personal name Lauri + the local suffix -la, i.e. ‘Lauri’s place’. This name occurs in eastern and western Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laurila?
- A machine transcription gives /ləʊɹilə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Laurila mean?
- Recorded meaning: topographic and ornamental name composed of the personal name Lauri + the local suffix -la, i.e.
- In which country does Laurila have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Laurila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled лаурила.
- Where is Laurila most common?
- Laurila is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 472 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laurila?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11,816 people named Laurila, about 1 in 472 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/laurilaThe 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, “Laurila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.