The first name Layla is a variant of the name Leyla and means ‘darkness’ or ‘night’ in Arabic and is sometimes translated as ‘daughter of the night’. Other spellings are Laila, Leïla or Lajlah and many more.
Layla is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The first name Layla is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #22 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Layla, accounting for approximately 0.40 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 110,541 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Layla. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Layla
Layla is the title character of the song 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, released in 1970. The song was written by Eric Clapton and his friend Jim Gordon and is one of Clapton's most famous and popular songs. It deals with unrequited love and longing and is often considered one of the greatest rock songs of all time. The name 'Layla' comes from an Arabic love poem called 'The Story of Layla and Majnun', in which the protagonist Majnun goes mad because he can't have Layla.
Leila Hyams (1905 - 1977)
Leila Hyams was an American film and stage actress and model, and vaudevillian who worked in the 1920s and 1930s. She appeared in a number of films, including Tod Browning's award-winning 'Freaks' (1932) as the wise-cracking but kind-hearted circus performer Venus, and the horror film 'Island of Lost Souls' (1932). Hyams began her career in the silent era and continued to work in talkies before retiring from acting in the 1940s.
Laila Ali (*1977)
Former US boxer Laila Ali is the daughter of the famous boxer Muhammad Ali. She started her career in 1999 and had a total of 24 fights, out of which she won 24. She had her last fight in 2007 and during her career she won the WBC and IWBF world titles in super middleweight word titles. Laila has also been involved in social and charitable activities, especially in the 'Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center' and in the 'Muhammad Ali Family Medical Center'.
Layla El (*1977)
Layla El, also known as Layla Young, is a British dancer and choreographer. She began her career as a professional dancer on the British edition of 'Strictly Come Dancing', a popular television dance show. She has also danced in music videos and tours for artists such as Madonna, Will Smith and Kylie Minogue. In addition, she has choreographed for television shows such as 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' and has served as a judge for various national and international dance competitions.
When you hear the name Layla, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Layla? Are you also called Layla? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
Layla is a city in Saudi Arabia located about 205 miles (330 km) south of Riyadh. The city is said to have been named after Layla of Bani 'Amir.
In the southern state of Karnataka, India, you will find the village of Laila, located in the Beltangadi taluk of Dakshina Kannada district.
is a 22,917 ft (6,986 m) high mountain in the Rakaposhi Haramosh Mountains in southwestern Karakoram in Gilgit-Baltistan, an autonomous region in northern Pakistan.
The name Layla 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 Layla 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 485 women in Nevada is called Layla. In total, that’s 921 women who feel addressed when the name Layla is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #126 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 Layla as the answer a total of 110,532 times. This places Layla at #306 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 Layla 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 Layla 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 Layla 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 Layla, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Layla
Layla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
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
A
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. Layla sounds like this:
