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Lala

A given name in French, Spanish and 2 more

Language contexts for this entry: French, Spanish, Turkish and 1 more

unisexmasculinefeminineLatin script

\la.la\ · French

Origin: Not established
4 language contexts: French Spanish Turkish +1 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Lala

Lala is a unisex given name documented in French, Spanish, Turkish and 1 other language.

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

(Prénom) De lala, « aimé, chéri », ou diminutif de Lalanañahary, littéralement « voie de dieu ».

Sources for this account (7)

French Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q4253383CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Lala is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Lala’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 12 girls (rank 8362).

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Lala

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 12; applications; Rank #8,362
Peak year: 1921; 39 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Lala in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	6	930	observed
1885	6	921	observed
1886	9	778	observed
1887	6	1,036	observed
1888	8	959	observed
1889	9	902	observed
1890	7	1,099	observed
1891	7	1,093	observed
1892	11	908	observed
1893	9	1,023	observed
1894	16	744	observed
1895	17	770	observed
1896	17	790	observed
1897	16	786	observed
1898	10	1,098	observed
1899	9	1,099	observed
1900	25	725	observed
1901	10	1,067	observed
1902	18	818	observed
1903	11	1,076	observed
1904	12	1,050	observed
1905	12	1,093	observed
1906	13	1,043	observed
1907	13	1,092	observed
1908	15	1,044	observed
1909	9	1,471	observed
1910	12	1,335	observed
1911	17	1,071	observed
1912	28	960	observed
1913	21	1,229	observed
1914	26	1,199	observed
1915	37	1,115	observed
1916	38	1,147	observed
1917	33	1,261	observed
1918	33	1,333	observed
1919	33	1,348	observed
1920	28	1,550	observed
1921	39	1,237	observed
1922	34	1,366	observed
1923	36	1,305	observed
1924	39	1,279	observed
1925	37	1,296	observed
1926	34	1,357	observed
1927	28	1,559	observed
1928	27	1,541	observed
1929	33	1,306	observed
1930	21	1,748	observed
1931	27	1,421	observed
1932	27	1,448	observed
1933	21	1,658	observed
1934	25	1,481	observed
1935	11	2,575	observed
1936	18	1,801	observed
1937	11	2,570	observed
1938	14	2,225	observed
1939	19	1,797	observed
1940	18	1,900	observed
1941	20	1,810	observed
1942	14	2,416	observed
1943	14	2,447	observed
1944	14	2,401	observed
1945	11	2,742	observed
1946	8	3,665	observed
1947	15	2,637	observed
1948	17	2,416	observed
1949	17	2,410	observed
1950	15	2,652	observed
1951	15	2,694	observed
1952	10	3,552	observed
1953	22	2,236	observed
1954	9	3,967	observed
1955	9	4,069	observed
1956	8	4,467	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	8	4,520	observed
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	8	4,773	observed
1961	9	4,546	observed
1962	8	4,865	observed
1963	7	5,296	observed
1964	6	6,009	observed
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	7	5,273	observed
1967	8	4,982	observed
1968	10	4,489	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	7	6,666	observed
1974	6	7,680	observed
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	10	5,601	observed
1977	6	8,444	observed
1978	7	7,649	observed
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	7	8,178	observed
1981	7	8,128	observed
1982	7	8,224	observed
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	6	9,144	observed
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	7	8,523	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	5	11,798	observed
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	6	11,778	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	5	14,122	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	7	11,801	observed
2001	8	11,020	observed
2002	6	13,595	observed
2003	11	9,048	observed
2004	13	8,259	observed
2005	15	7,500	observed
2006	11	9,901	observed
2007	7	13,924	observed
2008	11	10,084	observed
2009	5	17,294	observed
2010	10	10,451	observed
2011	10	10,374	observed
2012	13	8,632	observed
2013	14	8,135	observed
2014	8	11,931	observed
2015	9	10,866	observed
2016	9	10,859	observed
2017	13	8,299	observed
2018	9	10,545	observed
2019	11	9,112	observed
2020	5	15,088	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	9	10,383	observed
2023	11	8,989	observed
2024	14	7,594	observed
2025	12	8,362	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Lala” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
LALA— “tulip”
They are, for the most part, grand and poetical compounds, often exactly corresponding to Greek or Teutonic names, and with others more poetical than those in either of these other languages, such as Danica, the Morning star; Zwezdana, or in Russian, Swetlana, a Star; Zora, Zorana, Zorica, the Slovak Aurora; and Zorislava, the Dawn of glory; Golubica, the Dove; Lala, the Tulip. The Slaves use likewise the amaranth, or everlasting flower, as a name both for men and women,…
Read the full historical passageShow shorter excerpt
They are, for the most part, grand and poetical compounds, often exactly corresponding to Greek or Teutonic names, and with others more poetical than those in either of these other languages, such as Danica, the Morning star; Zwezdana, or in Russian, Swetlana, a Star; Zora, Zorana, Zorica, the Slovak Aurora; and Zorislava, the Dawn of glory; Golubica, the Dove; Lala, the Tulip. The Slaves use likewise the amaranth, or everlasting flower, as a name both for men and women, namely, Smiljan and Smiljana; and while a man may be called Dubislav, or Oak fame, the Servians and Illyrians call their daughters after fruits,—Grozdana, Rich in grapes; Jagoda, the Strawberry; and Kupina, or Kupiena, the Gooseberry.[149]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section I (Slavonic Races) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Lala with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q4253383CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section I (Slavonic Races)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Lala

Lala is a unisex given name documented in French, Spanish, Turkish and 1 other language.

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

(Prénom) De lala, « aimé, chéri », ou diminutif de Lalanañahary, littéralement « voie de dieu ».

Sources for this account (7)

French Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q4253383CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Lala is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Lala’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 12 girls (rank 8362).

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Lala

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 12; applications; Rank #8,362
Peak year: 1921; 39 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Lala in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	6	930	observed
1885	6	921	observed
1886	9	778	observed
1887	6	1,036	observed
1888	8	959	observed
1889	9	902	observed
1890	7	1,099	observed
1891	7	1,093	observed
1892	11	908	observed
1893	9	1,023	observed
1894	16	744	observed
1895	17	770	observed
1896	17	790	observed
1897	16	786	observed
1898	10	1,098	observed
1899	9	1,099	observed
1900	25	725	observed
1901	10	1,067	observed
1902	18	818	observed
1903	11	1,076	observed
1904	12	1,050	observed
1905	12	1,093	observed
1906	13	1,043	observed
1907	13	1,092	observed
1908	15	1,044	observed
1909	9	1,471	observed
1910	12	1,335	observed
1911	17	1,071	observed
1912	28	960	observed
1913	21	1,229	observed
1914	26	1,199	observed
1915	37	1,115	observed
1916	38	1,147	observed
1917	33	1,261	observed
1918	33	1,333	observed
1919	33	1,348	observed
1920	28	1,550	observed
1921	39	1,237	observed
1922	34	1,366	observed
1923	36	1,305	observed
1924	39	1,279	observed
1925	37	1,296	observed
1926	34	1,357	observed
1927	28	1,559	observed
1928	27	1,541	observed
1929	33	1,306	observed
1930	21	1,748	observed
1931	27	1,421	observed
1932	27	1,448	observed
1933	21	1,658	observed
1934	25	1,481	observed
1935	11	2,575	observed
1936	18	1,801	observed
1937	11	2,570	observed
1938	14	2,225	observed
1939	19	1,797	observed
1940	18	1,900	observed
1941	20	1,810	observed
1942	14	2,416	observed
1943	14	2,447	observed
1944	14	2,401	observed
1945	11	2,742	observed
1946	8	3,665	observed
1947	15	2,637	observed
1948	17	2,416	observed
1949	17	2,410	observed
1950	15	2,652	observed
1951	15	2,694	observed
1952	10	3,552	observed
1953	22	2,236	observed
1954	9	3,967	observed
1955	9	4,069	observed
1956	8	4,467	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	8	4,520	observed
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	8	4,773	observed
1961	9	4,546	observed
1962	8	4,865	observed
1963	7	5,296	observed
1964	6	6,009	observed
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	7	5,273	observed
1967	8	4,982	observed
1968	10	4,489	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	7	6,666	observed
1974	6	7,680	observed
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	10	5,601	observed
1977	6	8,444	observed
1978	7	7,649	observed
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	7	8,178	observed
1981	7	8,128	observed
1982	7	8,224	observed
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	6	9,144	observed
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	7	8,523	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	5	11,798	observed
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	6	11,778	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	5	14,122	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	7	11,801	observed
2001	8	11,020	observed
2002	6	13,595	observed
2003	11	9,048	observed
2004	13	8,259	observed
2005	15	7,500	observed
2006	11	9,901	observed
2007	7	13,924	observed
2008	11	10,084	observed
2009	5	17,294	observed
2010	10	10,451	observed
2011	10	10,374	observed
2012	13	8,632	observed
2013	14	8,135	observed
2014	8	11,931	observed
2015	9	10,866	observed
2016	9	10,859	observed
2017	13	8,299	observed
2018	9	10,545	observed
2019	11	9,112	observed
2020	5	15,088	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	9	10,383	observed
2023	11	8,989	observed
2024	14	7,594	observed
2025	12	8,362	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
LALA— “tulip”
They are, for the most part, grand and poetical compounds, often exactly corresponding to Greek or Teutonic names, and with others more poetical than those in either of these other languages, such as Danica, the Morning star; Zwezdana, or in Russian, Swetlana, a Star; Zora, Zorana, Zorica, the Slovak Aurora; and Zorislava, the Dawn of glory; Golubica, the Dove; Lala, the Tulip. The Slaves use likewise the amaranth, or everlasting flower, as a name both for men and women,…
Read the full historical passageShow shorter excerpt
They are, for the most part, grand and poetical compounds, often exactly corresponding to Greek or Teutonic names, and with others more poetical than those in either of these other languages, such as Danica, the Morning star; Zwezdana, or in Russian, Swetlana, a Star; Zora, Zorana, Zorica, the Slovak Aurora; and Zorislava, the Dawn of glory; Golubica, the Dove; Lala, the Tulip. The Slaves use likewise the amaranth, or everlasting flower, as a name both for men and women, namely, Smiljan and Smiljana; and while a man may be called Dubislav, or Oak fame, the Servians and Illyrians call their daughters after fruits,—Grozdana, Rich in grapes; Jagoda, the Strawberry; and Kupina, or Kupiena, the Gooseberry.[149]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section I (Slavonic Races) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q4253383CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: LalaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section I (Slavonic Races)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Lala

Etymology in the sources

Where Lala is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Lala

Etymology in the sources

Where Lala is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page