Leyla is a variant of the Arabic name Layla, which means ‘night’ or ‘dark’. Leyla is the usual Turkish, Azerbaijani and Kurdish spelling, and Leila the usual Persian.
Leyla is a female first name.
The name Leyla 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, Leyla ranks 612. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Leyla. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leyla.
Leyla is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Leyla cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #535 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2020. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Leyla, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Leyla seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leyla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
500 babies were named Leyla in 2022 - that's 1 in 296,464 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Leyla ranked 540 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Leyla, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Leyla. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Leyla living in one state or another. If your name is Leyla and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arizona, which has the most people named Leyla relative to the population, you still have to ask 7,086 women and girls their names before you hear Leyla as an answer just once.
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 Leyla 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 Leyla 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 Leyla, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leyla
Leyla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
Y
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
E
Y
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. Leyla sounds like this:
