Laiah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-a
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Laiah is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “well-spoken”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Laiah mean?
Greek: spelling of Laia; Catalan short form of Eulalia
“well-spoken”
A Catalan pet form of Eulalia; Saint Eulalia, an early Christian martyr, is a co-patron saint of Barcelona.
Meaning borrowed from Laia.
Is Laiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Laiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Laiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Laiah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Laiah than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Laiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 91 girls in the US were given Laiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,814, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Laia 85
- Laiah 6
Laiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,233 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,456 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Laiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Salem Hadassah Safa Aaliyah Zaliyah Zaya Kaliyah Zayla Zainab Naziyah Sariyah
Other spellings of Laiah
Names related to Laiah
More Greek names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Laiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laiah, updated 20 October 2026.