Lalaith as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Lalaith

What is the meaning of the name Lalaith ?

The baby name Lalaith is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced lah-LAYTH (approx. /ləˈleɪθ/).

Lalaith is in Origin.

Lalaith is a Sindarin (Tolkien-Elvish) feminine name meaning “laughter,” formed with the abstract suffix -ith from the Elvish root for laughing. In Tolkien’s legendarium it is the affectionate byname (epessë) of Urwen, daughter of Húrin and Morwen, celebrated for her irrepressible joy before her early death; the name appears in The Silmarillion and The Children of Húrin. As a literary creation, it lacks pre-Tolkien usage but has seen modest modern adoption among fantasy readers.

Variants and related forms are limited: the canonical spelling is Lalaith, with common nicknames Lala and Lai; some use Laith as a clipped form, though this coincides with an unrelated Arabic name meaning “lion.” Look-alikes like Lalita (Sanskrit) or Leila/Laila (Arabic-Persian) are etymologically distinct. Approximate pronunciation is la-LIE-th, with ai as in “eye” and voiceless th.

⚙ Lalaith is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Lalaith appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.