Laila is a variant of the name Leyla and means ‘darkness, night’ in Arabic. It is sometimes translated as ‘most beautiful of nights’.
Laila is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Laila isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Laila ranks 170. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Laila. In the entire USA, approximately 38,256 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Laila. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Laila may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Laila is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,423 women in Nevada is called Laila. In total, that’s 314 women who feel addressed when the name Laila is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #350 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Laila as the answer a total of 38,256 times. This places Laila at #610 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Laila as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Laila is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Laila and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Laila, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Laila
Laila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
I
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
I
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Laila sounds like this:
