Laila

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Laila: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Laila: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #23 in 1948, and it stood at #352 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
143times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#23highest recorded position
34groupings it qualifies for
13names it appears alongside

What stands out in Laila's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 37 years running. Names by top-100 run
Moved 110 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
Shares a published list with another name across 80 years. Longest shared records

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#671
1997	#585
1998	#561
1999	#458
2000	#397
2001	#375
2002	#348
2003	#273
2004	#242
2005	#153
2006	#163
2007	#162
2008	#156
2009	#110
2010	#95
2011	#124
2012	#118
2013	#145
2014	#143
2015	#178
2016	#209
2017	#230
2018	#256
2019	#292
2020	#277
2021	#303
2022	#302
2023	#311
2024	#333

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 80 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #352 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #408 among girls in Norway.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #24 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #23 among girls in Norway, in 1948 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #408 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Laila appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 80 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 9,513 births with the name.

Laila across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Laila's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#24 (1945)	#23 (1948)	#408 (2025)	80 of 81	9,513 (1945–2025)	320 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#671 (1996)	#95 (2010)	#333 (2024)	29 of 29	6,824 (1996–2024)	616 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#439 (1999)	#169 (2010)	#352 (2025)	23 of 27	272 (1999–2025)	37 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#318 (2005)	#247 (2014)	#350 (2021)	10 of 17	49 (2005–2021)	7 (2014)

Laila by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Laila in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	1,504	5 of 10	301
1950s	2,316	10 of 10	232
1960s	2,507	10 of 10	251
1970s	2,110	10 of 10	211
1980s	588	10 of 10	59
1990s	211	10 of 10	21
2000s	124	10 of 10	12
2010s	100	10 of 10	10
2020s	53	5 of 10	11

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 301 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1962 and 1963, when recorded births rose by 118, from 185 to 303.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Laila appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #23 in Norway in 1973.

Laila's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#333	129	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#311	140	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#302	148	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#303	155	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#277	170	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#292	167	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#256	190	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#230	218	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#209	254	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#178	307	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#143	383	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#145	360	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#118	495	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#124	474	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#95	616	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#110	482	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#156	344	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#162	335	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#163	326	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#153	335	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#242	188	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#273	151	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#348	100	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#375	86	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#397	80	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#458	64	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#561	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#585	44	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#671	35	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#247	7	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#297	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#408	7	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#354	10	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#341	10	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#329	10	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#268	16	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#356	10	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#408	8	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#340	12	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#374	11	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#491	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#423	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#381	11	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#363	12	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#351	13	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#456	8	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#362	12	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#328	14	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#415	9	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#259	19	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#428	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#343	11	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#315	13	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#312	13	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#270	17	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#350	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#260	17	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#287	14	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#298	14	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#254	19	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#209	28	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#154	42	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#264	19	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#250	22	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#230	25	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#207	29	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#160	41	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#141	49	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#153	44	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#167	37	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#105	66	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#114	61	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#105	62	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#78	93	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#67	106	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#58	129	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#62	124	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#39	165	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#38	183	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#31	211	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#24	256	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#23	290	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#31	240	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#35	245	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#31	267	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#40	235	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#29	305	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#30	287	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#27	303	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#33	254	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#31	251	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#28	303	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#49	185	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#47	203	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#48	181	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#46	205	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#41	227	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#45	216	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#39	258	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#44	213	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#41	227	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#39	225	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#34	248	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#34	241	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#34	256	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#33	261	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#23	311	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#31	294	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#27	320	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#24	318	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	11	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#341	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	11	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#316	15	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	9	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	15	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#295	17	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#240	22	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#169	37	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#239	22	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#241	22	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	15	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	6	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	11	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #23, first reached in 1948.

It held a top-100 place in 38 years, 37 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 616 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Laiba · #212, 27y
Laiken · #2921, 11y
Laila-Mae · #2496, 11y
Laila-Rose · #1809, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hanna · #22, 81y
Rita · #25, 81y
Kirsten · #20, 80y
Lena · #20, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Elise · #23, 81y
Jeanette · #23, 68y
Live · #23, 80y
Pål · #23, 81y

Comparisons involving Laila

Existing comparison pages where Laila and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Laila in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Ingrid vs Laila
In 1945 they stood at #27 and #24 in Norway · Girls, 3 places apart; by 2025 they were #15 and #408.
Ingrid · Laila · 80 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Solveig vs Laila
In 1945 they stood at #14 and #24 in Norway · Girls, 10 places apart; by 2025 they were #28 and #408.
Solveig · Laila · 80 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Laila vs May
Laila and May changed places 18 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2025, ending at #408 and #481.
Laila · May · 79 shared years, 1945–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Laila measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Laila at its highest position.

Åse vs Laila
Åse and Laila changed places 17 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2025, ending at #93 and #408.
Åse · Laila · 80 shared years, 1945–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Helen vs Laila
Helen and Laila changed places 16 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2025, ending at #438 and #408.
Helen · Laila · 78 shared years, 1945–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Karin vs Laila
Karin and Laila changed places 15 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2025, ending at #476 and #408.
Karin · Laila · 79 shared years, 1945–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Laila was ranked #23 in Norway · Girls in 1948. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Laila and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Laila without appearing here.

Laila moved ahead of

Jude Compare
In 2011 they stood at #502 and #502 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #295 and #907.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #397 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #375 and #871.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #671 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #585 and #1015.
Pauline Compare
In 2007 they stood at #414 and #414 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #241 and #665.

Moved ahead of Laila

Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #628 and #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #502.
Lola Compare
In 2007 they stood at #318 and #377 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #370 and #138.
Isabella Compare
In 1998 they stood at #260 and #269 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #350 and #187.
Kristin Compare
In 2024 they stood at #354 and #363 in Norway · Girls; by 2025 that had become #408 and #251.

Moved the opposite way to Laila

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 while Ella went from #137 to #4.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 while Ellinor went from #102 to #7.

Moved the same way as Laila

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Laila went from #24 to #408 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #23 in Norway in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Laila

Laila at a glance

What stands out in Laila's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Laila across 4 official records

Laila by decade in Norway · Girls

Laila appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Laila

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Laila

Laila and the names beside it

Laila moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Laila

Moved the opposite way to Laila

Moved the same way as Laila

Laila at a glance

What stands out in Laila's record

Laila across 4 official records

Laila by decade in Norway · Girls

Laila appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Laila

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Laila

Laila and the names beside it

Laila moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Laila

Moved the opposite way to Laila

Moved the same way as Laila