Given name & surname
Raila
“nettle sting”
Raila is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish and Luo.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Raila goes back to a word meaning “nettle sting.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Raila through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14
- 0 boys · 14 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 132 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Raila’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Raila has a related form in RAILI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Raila
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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