Girls' name · since 2014
Lais
52 babies named Lais in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #34,595 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,515 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 52
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
52 babies have been named Lais since 2014, making it today's #16515 girls' name.
Lais has 52 recorded births among girls since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16515 as of the latest data, more common than 5% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #34,595 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,515 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 52 born since 2014
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lais ranks #34,595 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,515 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 52 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,595 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,515 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 52
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lais's 52 recorded births place it above 52.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lais compares
52 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lais's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lais | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 52 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Lais's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lais splits its recorded history at 2022: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2020 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lais popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Lais by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (33 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Lais's strongest decade.
33 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Lais births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
19 births
- 2020s
2020s
33 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 33 births (63% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lais draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.