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Laina

#2,422 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly loan

Laina has been given to 3,569 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #2,422 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Laina, 2025

1 in 44,800

Laina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laina: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly loan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laina means

Laina may mean “loan”, associated with laina.

Origin, language, and formation

Laina is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Laina is pronounced /ˈlɑi̯nɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,569 girls were recorded with the name Laina between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,771 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,390 in 2020 to #2,422 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,968 in 2015 to #2,422 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 Laina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,800
74 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,422
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,054 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laina 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 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laina was born before 2006 — so the typical Laina is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,513
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (970).

Is Laina 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
−144
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−454
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.2%
Peak was 2014 (117)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,771
2014

Spellings of Laina

Laina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.1% against Laina's 0.05%.

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 Laina is used

Across 2016–2025, Laina was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 28,693 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 9,091
  2. 2Michigan1 in 16,667
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 20,000
  5. 5New York1 in 20,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 25,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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.

Laina around the world

Where Laina 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2002–2002
    #640
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    2012–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    1983–2025
    #600
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Laina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Laina. Linked forms have their own page here.

LaiaLaineLianaLeïnaLáidná

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Laina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,422
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 32
Best rank ever
#1,771
2014
Peak year
2014
117 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,569
Count in 2025
74

Names similar to Laina

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

LaineLaishaLaikynLainieLaikenZainaLailahChinaTainaLaibaLaineeDainaIrinaJainaElinaLailaniLaiaLaiyaAdinaKalinaJaninaBrinaMalinaLaini

Names with a curve like Laina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SabineRochelKerenDanniRaniaKarolineJoleeSamiaTalyaNechamaDalilaChava

Sibling names for Laina

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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