Lâla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lâla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Hindu name (Bania, Kayasth), from Hindi laid, a term of respect, used especially for members of Vaisya and Kayasth communities; typically bankers, merchants, tradesmen, schoolmasters, and clerks.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.5Kas Lal
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.6Kas Lal
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 Lâla 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #142 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
373,617 named Lal
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lal in IN India, PK Pakistan, KW Kuwait and 5 more.
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)
Hindu name (Bania, Kayasth), from Hindi laid, a term of respect, used especially for members of Vaisya and Kayasth communities; typically bankers, merchants, tradesmen, schoolmasters, and clerks. It is probably related to Lal.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lâla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #24 | 373,617as Lal | 1 in 3.5K | 374K | Lal | 272 |
| PK Pakistan | #158 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Lal | 58 |
| BD Bangladesh | #198 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Lal | 54 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 7 | Lal | 69 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #72 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Lal | 80 |
| FJ Fiji | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 216 | 15K | — | 45 |
| KW Kuwait | #54 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Lal | 20 |
| BH Bahrain | #64 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Lal | 22 |
| QA Qatar | #142 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Lal | 21 |
373,617 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; The page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instit; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lâla mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name (Bania, Kayasth), from Hindi laid, a term of respect, used especially for members of Vaisya and Kayasth communities; typically bankers, merchants, tradesmen, schoolmasters, and clerks. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 3 other sources.
- Is Lâla a male or female name?
- Lâla is a male 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.
- In which country does Lâla have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 374 thousand people named Lal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lâla?
- In India, the national register counted 373,617 people named Lal, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Lâla compared with other names?
- In India, Lâla is the 24th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A2laThe 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, “Lâla” — the 24th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.