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Laima

Girls' name

Luck

Laima has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Laima, 2021

1 in 678,000

Laima 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laima: meaning, origin, and history

Luck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laima means

Laima means “luck”, associated with laime.

Origin, language, and formation

Laima is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Laima is pronounced [¹ˈlɑˑɪmɐ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Laima between 1951 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1962; its best national rank was #5,526 in 1955.

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 Laima?

Laima had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laima 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 2021 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laima was born before 1955 — so the typical Laima is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
72.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 72.1% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Laima 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (7)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,526
1955

Spellings of Laima

Laima is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 32.3% against Laima'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.

Laima around the world

Where Laima 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
    2014–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    2016–2018
    #5,174
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1951–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Laima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,526
1955
Peak year
1962
7 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laima

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

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Sibling names for Laima

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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