Leila

Where Leila comes from

From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leila
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #163 among girls with 80 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1972
    Leila Hatami born
    Iranian actress
  3. 1986
    Leila Lopes born
    Angolan beauty pageant titleholder
  4. 2010
    The comeback
    Back to #205 after sinking to #1,036 in 1996.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Leila Lopes · Angolan beauty pageant titleholder, born 1986
  • Leila Hatami · Iranian actress, born 1972
  • Leila Pahlavi · Iranian princess, 1970–2001
  • Leila Ahmed · Egyptian-American writer and professor, born 1940
  • Leila Abashidze · Georgian actress, film director, and writer, 1929–2018

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.