Lyla

Where Lyla comes from

A spelling variant of Leila.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lyla
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #851 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Lyla Pinch Brock born
    Canadian egyptologist and anthropologist
  3. 2025
    Peak, #80
    3,089 babies named Lyla — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Lyla Pinch Brock · Canadian egyptologist and anthropologist, born 1944

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.