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Lais

#16,236 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lais has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #16,236 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Lais, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lais: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lais means

Lais is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lais is used in Siraya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 girls were recorded with the name Lais between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,810 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,454 in 2020 to #16,236 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 Lais?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,236
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lais 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lais was born before 2022 — so the typical Lais is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
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Choose a decade

2020s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Lais 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
−1,781
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+218
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2022 (12)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,810
2022

Spellings of Lais

Lais is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 40.1% against Lais'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.

Lais around the world

Where Lais 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.

  • France
    1980–2025
    #2,696
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1951–1951
    #423
    in 1951

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lais by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,236
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 218
Best rank ever
#8,810
2022
Peak year
2022
12 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Lais

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

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Sibling names for Lais

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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