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Laia

#2,182 in 2025Girls' name

Sweetly speaking, through Eulàlia

Laia has been given to 1,130 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,182 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Laia, 2025

1 in 39,000

Laia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laia: meaning, origin, and history

Sweetly speaking, through Eulàlia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laia means

Laia belongs to the name family reached through Laia → Eulàlia → Εὐλαλία. Its meaning is “sweetly speaking”.

Origin, language, and formation

Laia is used in Catalan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eulàlia and Εὐλαλία.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Laia is pronounced [ˈla.jə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,130 girls were recorded with the name Laia between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,632 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,250 in 2020 to #2,182 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,511 in 2015 to #2,182 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Laia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,182
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laia was born before 2020 — so the typical Laia is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,130
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (579).

Is Laia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−120
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+68
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,329
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.4%
Peak was 2022 (130)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,632
2022

Spellings of Laia

Laia is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 11.7% against Laia's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Laia is used

Across 2016–2025, Laia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 15,741 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

215 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 10,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 11,111
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Laia around the world

Where Laia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • France
    1981–2025
    #368
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2023
    #2,222
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Laia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,182
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 68
Best rank ever
#1,632
2022
Peak year
2022
130 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,130
Count in 2025
85

Names similar to Laia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Laia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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