Lá

Locally spelled La in US United States, CA Canada, TN Tunisia and 3 more and Lä in EC Ecuador.

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.

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• a separate surname55 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Mexico, France, Argentina

  Also written La, Lă, Lã, Là, Lâ

• French surname30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Canada, Réunion, Senegal

  Also written La, Là, L'A, Lã, L-A

• Thai given name83 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written ละเอียด, ละออ, ลออ, Laaiad, 'ละเอียด

• a separate name11 spellings in the group

  Also written Là, Lầ, Lā, Lặ, Lã

• Hindi name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written La, La', Lã, Là

19 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.

Lá is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, there, over there

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

• In nv, it occurred to me (emphasizes a statement, or turns it into an exclamation, usually indicating recently discovered knowledge)

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

• In Hungarian, la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale

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

• In Portuguese, there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience)

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

• In non, the line of the shoal water along the shore

  as a word·kaikki.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.

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

What are other forms of the name Lá?

In the etymology graph, ស្លា is a form of the same name in other languages.

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

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

Is Lá a male or female name?

Lá is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Lá?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Lá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled la. After it come Algeria, United States, Canada and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Lá?

In Brazil, the national register counted 11,408 people named Lá, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.

How common is Lá compared with other names?

In Algeria, Lá is the 15th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.