Laina — #2277 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Laina

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,494 babies named Laina between 1906 and 2024, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laina currently holds the #2277 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 117 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 970 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Laina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 155 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Laina in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,494 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.