Laina
Laina was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,422 among girls’ names; 3,569 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,430 Americans named Laina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laina mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Laina is “a female given name”
Proposed as a new given name in the 19th century. Perhaps from laina (“loan”), with the philosophy that children are but a loan to their parents. Another possibility is inspiration from laine (“wave”) (compare Laine). The word is shaped like a female name (compare Aino, Aina).
/ˈlɑi̯nɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laina?
#2,422 among girls’ names, 2025
Laina fell from #1,968 in 2015 to #2,422 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.1 to 46.0 per million.
117 babies in 2014, the peak
Laina peaked in 2014, when 117 girls were given it, #1,771 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,422 | 46.0 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,278 | 50.6 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,012 | 61.1 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,132 | 54.9 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,501 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,390 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,278 | 47.7 |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,212 | 49.4 |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,104 | 53.3 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,008 | 55.9 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 102 | #1,968 | 57.1 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,771 | 65.5 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,787 | 65.5 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,110 | 51.7 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,994 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,159 | 51.2 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,025 | 55.5 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,246 | 46.5 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,931 | 55.7 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,790 | 61.0 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,081 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,297 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,753 | 31.2 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,593 | 33.4 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,898 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,188 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,076 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,044 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,605 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,602 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,127 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,267 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,786 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,371 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,679 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,113 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,356 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,566 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,471 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,943 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,730 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,960 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,289 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,308 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,390 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,628 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,037 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,828 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,433 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,352 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,721 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,166 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,548 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,117 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,637 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,284 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,080 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,391 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,738 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,126 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,879 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,961 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,253 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,979 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,892 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,280 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,307 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,066 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,389 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,315 | 4.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,459 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,112 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,997 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,820 | 2.8 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,565 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,909 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,739 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,022 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,760 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,962 | 17.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,335 | 14.3 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,085 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laina, and how old are they?
3,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,569 Americans ever recorded as Laina. The median Laina alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,001 people named Laina (2,994 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 368 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 582 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Laina born?
The states with the most babies named Laina are California, Florida and New York, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,945 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,039 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,958 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,098 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,516 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 112,427 babies since 1880, Laina is the fifth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 7,031 babies (1.1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laina and names like it
- Compare Laina and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaina peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laina since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Laina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Laina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.