Leyla is a girl's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “night.” In 2024 it was given to 499 girls in the United States.
Leyla at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“night”
Also spelled
Helga
About the name Leyla
Leyla belongs to the Biblical & Christian and Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “night” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Helga.
In the United States, Leyla first appears in Social Security records in 1957. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #587 in 2020, and in 2024 499 babies received the name — 10,077 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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