Meaning not yet researched.
Laia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 85 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,632 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,632 in 2022; #2,182 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,182 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,632.
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Laia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 85 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,632 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 130 (2022).
In 2025, 85 US girls were named Laia, making it the 2,182nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 120 places from #2,062 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 94 girls named Laia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,632, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #3,511 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laia in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 1,130 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 579 babies named Laia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 868 US girls were named Laia; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laia ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,148 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lea (34,468 babies since 1880), Lia (28,516 babies since 1880), Leia (18,778 babies since 1880) and Eulalia (4,854 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Laia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,148 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,374 | #2,399 |
| California | 17 | #1,389 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,790 | #1,984 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,533 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 2015 | 45 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,020 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,459 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,785 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,215 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,152 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,929 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,032 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,418 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,539 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,984 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,530 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,536 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,687 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,293 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,257 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).