How Many People Are Named Laia?

1,123

people named Laia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 304,349 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,130 babies named Laia in Social Security records from 1980 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#9,816

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#5,506

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Peak Year

2022

130 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Catalan
Pronunciation: LAH-yə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Catalan diminutive of EULALIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Laia in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Laia alive today is about 7 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 9 in 2025.

Under 30 1,109
98.7%
30 to 59 15
1.3%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Laia first appears in the records in 1980 and was given most often in 2022, to 130 babies. In 2025, 85 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1980 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Laia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,632, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #2,182.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,182
Best rank#1,632 (2022)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,005 in the 2020s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Laia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Laia were born in New York than in any other state: about 129 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Laia was given 3.9 times as often in New York, 2.4 times in Florida and 1.5 times in California.

New York 129
California 107
Florida 83
Texas 80
New Jersey 36
Massachusetts 23
Illinois 23
Pennsylvania 20
Michigan 11
North Carolina 11
Georgia 10
Louisiana 5
Maryland 5

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