Là

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Vietnamese: fine silk

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Là is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 19K
  • NONorway1 in 63K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

11,408 people

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lă in FI Finland, NO Norway, CH Switzerland and La in US United States.

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)

referring to physical place

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

How Là is read(measured from records)

Là is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Vietnamese67%

    fine silk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic16%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Là in Arabic.

  • French10%

    referring to physical place

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Là 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.

Where Là is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil11,4081 in 19K11K—1
US United States6,6551 in 50K8KLa103
NO Norway871 in 63K87Lă6
CH Switzerland861 in 98K86Lă10
FI Finland621 in 90K88Lă5

11,408 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Là is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Réunion, Senegal

    Also written La, L'A, Lã, L-A, Lâ

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Lầ, Lā, Lá, Lặ, Lã

  • Italian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Spain, Vatican City, France

    Also written La, Lâ, Lą, Lã, Lå

  • Hindi name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written La, La', Lã, Lá

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Là is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Scottish Gaelic, synonym of latha (“day”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frm, alternative form of la (there; at a given location)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 剌

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, obsolete spelling of lá

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Là under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Là come from?
referring to physical place Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Là mean?
In Vietnamese, fine silk
In which country does Là have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Là, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Là most common?
Là is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Là?
In Brazil, the national register counted 11,408 people named Là, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.

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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, “Là”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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