Lawaia
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lawaia has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2022, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Lawaia, 2023
1 in 663,000
Lawaia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lawaia?
Lawaia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lawaia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawaia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lawaias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lawaia was born before 2016 — so the typical Lawaia is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Lawaia 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2022 (7)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Lawaia
Lawaia is not the most common spelling — Lakai is, with 95.4% against Lawaia's 4.6%.
- Lakai95.4%557
- Lawaia4.6%27
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 Lawaia is used
Across 1910–2025, Lawaia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 37,754 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lawaia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lawaia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lawaia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lawaia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.