Laylah

Where Laylah comes from

Rare spelling variant of Leila.
— Wiktionary's entry for Laylah
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #9,067 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #594
    496 babies named Laylah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,061.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila.
Namesakes

No widely known Laylah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.