Wilai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɪɫaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 1.8Kas วิไล(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 173K
- FIFinland1 in 51Kas Wili
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 Wilai 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 named วิไล, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled วิไล in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia, Vilai in BR Brazil, US United States and Wili in LA Laos.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #177 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | #597,063 | วิไล | 101 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | วิไล | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 517as Wili | 1 in 410K | 919 | Vilai | 3 |
| US United States | — | 206as Wi | 1 in 1.6M | 538 | Vilai | 50 |
| FI Finland | — | 110as Wili | 1 in 51K | 118 | — | 2 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Wili | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 59 | 1 in 173K | 59 | Wilai | 6 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 59 | #12,239 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 54 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 52 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 52 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 49 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 44 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Wilai?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪɫaɪ/ (IPA) for Thai.
- Is Wilai a male or female name?
- Wilai 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.
- In which country does Wilai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named วิไล in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wilai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wilai is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 173 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wilai?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 59 people named Wilai, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilai compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Wilai is the 177th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wilai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilaiThe 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, “Wilai” — the 177th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.