Laina
- #2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,569since 1906
Laina over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Laina has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,410 | 74 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 |
| 2023 | #2,002 | 98 |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 |
| 2019 | #2,272 | 80 |
| 2018 | #2,207 | 84 |
| 2017 | #2,097 | 92 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 |
| 2015 | #1,964 | 102 |
| 2014 | #1,768 | 117 |
| 2013 | #1,775 | 115 |
| 2012 | #2,095 | 91 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 |
| 2009 | #2,016 | 102 |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 |
| 2007 | #1,929 | 107 |
| 2006 | #1,788 | 116 |
| 2005 | #2,073 | 90 |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 |
| 2003 | #2,737 | 57 |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 |
| 1996 | #2,591 | 48 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 |
| 1989 | #3,330 | 31 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 |
| 1986 | #2,903 | 32 |
| 1985 | #2,704 | 35 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 |
| 1981 | #2,375 | 41 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #2,599 | 28 |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 |
| 1967 | #2,706 | 21 |
| 1966 | #2,094 | 31 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 |
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| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
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| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 |
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First appearance
1906
The first year at least five girls were named Laina! It came in at #1,951, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1910, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Laina is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- New Jersey#1,036 · 1 in 5,917
- Pennsylvania#1,392 · 1 in 9,338
- New York#1,830 · 1 in 13,055
- Florida#1,887 · 1 in 14,460
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #403 in Iowa, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 5,917 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
| New York | #1,830 | 6 | 1 in 13,055 |
| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 34 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #2,410)
Rise & fade · girls
108 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 2014 at #1,768 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,259
- Highest: 1 in 15,259 girls born in 2013 were named Laina (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,768 in 2014, was only 1 in 15,268 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 27.2% of all girls named Laina (970) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1900s | 5 | #1,951 (1906) | #1,951 |
| 1910s | 51 | #1,883 (1913) | #3,152 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 56 | #3,925 (1958) | #4,890 |
| 1960s | 204 | #2,058 (1969) | #2,902 |
| 1970s | 236 | #2,267 (1970) | #3,156 |
| 1980s | 358 | #2,272 (1983) | #2,735 |
| 1990s | 411 | #2,590 (1997) | #2,941 |
| 2000s | 789 | #1,788 (2006) | #2,370 |
| 2010s | 970 | #1,768 (2014) | #2,031 |
| 2020s | 489 | #2,002 (2023) | #2,277 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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