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Laila

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant spelling of Láilá [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Variant form of Leila [2] [5] [6] [8] [7]

Related Names

Laijla ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Laila ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Laíla ♀
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 Icelandic
Lailah ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Lailu ♀
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 Finish
Lajla ♀
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 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Layla ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Laylah ♀
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 Swedish
Læla ♀
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 Icelandic

See also Laikki, Lalla, Lape

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lailuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Lailudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Laila
Genitive: Lailas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Laila
Accusative: Lailu
Dative: Lailu
Genitive: Lailu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Laila
Genitive: Lailan
Partitive: Lailaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Laila
Accusative: Lailu
Dative: Lailu
Genitive: Lailu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Laila
Genitive: Lailas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Laila
Genitive: Lailas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

27 February

Finland Finland

5 March

Norway Norway

27 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

5 March

Sweden Sweden

5 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Laila Schou Nilsen (18 March 1919 – 30 July 1998), Norwegian speed skater, alpine skier and tennis player
  • Ragnhild Laila Lillemor Ohlgren (née Tingshammar, 17 November 1937 - 6 January 2014), Swedish engineer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 11,563 people were named Laila (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [12]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[13]
7738 12330 7738 12330 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
6603
n.a.
 6603
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 8710
n.a.
 8710 0 0
Greenland Greenland[16]
107 156
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
24 29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
10554
n.a.
 10554
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Laila (f) Sources: [13][14][18][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Laila (f) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Laila (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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