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Leila
Pronounced /ˈleɪlə/
Rank in 2024
#267
Born in 2024
1,191
Peak year
2010 · #205
Origin
Arabic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,191 girls were named Leila, about 1 in every 1,354.
- It peaked in 2010 with 1,509 babies, ranked #205.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 54,226 girls have been named Leila since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Leila per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,957 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Silent: 4,210 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,304 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,501 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,283 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14,969 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,157 babies, 0.80 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.
- A female given name from Arabic.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Say it
- /ˈleɪlə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Leila, CC BY-SA 4.0.