Leila

What Leila means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Leila yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Leila?

US: Steady: #247 in 2015, #259 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #177 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1891, when 178 girls got the name (#179 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,347 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,481 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,193 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (6.53 per 1,000 girls), AK (3.63 per 1,000 girls), DC (2.97 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Leila is #259 in the US and #268 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Leila were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lily6,673 US · 2,249 E&W
• Layla5,338 US · 833 E&W
• Lyla3,089 US · 751 E&W
• Lilah1,736 US · 464 E&W
• Lila1,670 US · 277 E&W
• Lola1,132 US · 524 E&W
• Laila755 US · 151 E&W
• Leyla478 US · 101 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Leila

Girls

• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Noor#659“light”^*

For a brother

• Rayan#588Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #178 vs #588 in 2025
• Omari#686Editor’s note Down from #508 in 2015 to #686 in 2025 in the US
• Zaid#675Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies
• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Leila’s. Rank is US 2025.