Leyla

What Leyla means

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

Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Leyla?

US: Rising: up from #782 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #467 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 504 girls got the name (#599 that year). First in the US records in 1957.

How common

• About 1 in 3,362 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,508 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 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 RI (2.45 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.62 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Leyla is #611 in the US and #403 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 Leyla were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Layla5,338 US · 833 E&W
• Lyla3,089 US · 751 E&W
• Lila1,670 US · 277 E&W
• Lola1,132 US · 524 E&W
• Leila1,193 US · 171 E&W
• Laila755 US · 151 E&W
• Lylah503 US · 85 E&W
• Leela175 US · 51 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 Leyla

Girls

• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• 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
• 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
• Zaid#675Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies
• Yahya#615Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #81 vs #615 in 2025

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 Leyla’s. Rank is US 2025.