Laila

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Laila is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: night; also used for Layla/Leila.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 1.2K◐
  • MAMorocco1 in 1.3K
  • SYSyria1 in 4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈120K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
229 ●

109K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 561 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

LailaLatin · Portuguese●453K records
ᲚაილაGeorgian · Georgian●101 records
ΛαιλαGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

night; also used for Layla/Leila. A classic Arabic female name.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Laila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#79038,099△5.4K rec.1 in 5.6K38KLaila133
US United States—35,807△15K rec.1 in 9.3K36KLaila229
AR Argentina#95931,10017K rec.—76Laila64
PH Philippines—12,7269.6K rec.——Laila52
MA Morocco#13311,70111K rec.——Laila97
SE Sweden—11,689△753 rec.1 in 87312KLaila31
EG Egypt#5109,7714.1K rec.——Laila106
NO Norway—9,744△274 rec.1 in 56131KLaila36
SY Syria#4648,3749.5K rec.——Laila30
ES Spain#9066,3788.4K rec.1 in 7.8K6.4KLaila79
DK Denmark—6,370△11 rec.1 in 9216.4K—1
MX Mexico—5,4143.3K rec.——Laila90

Roughly 38K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 5.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese453K44%
  • English102K10%
  • Spanish75K7%
  • Hindi60K6%
  • French53K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese453,05044%
English101,50510%
Spanish74,7157%
Hindi60,2466%
French53,1655%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Laila is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name202K records spelled Laila57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Laïla, Laeila, Lai-La, Lai'La, Làilà

  • Hindi given name81K records spelled Laila16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written লায়লা, Loyola, লয়লা, Laïla, লাযলা

  • Indonesian given name55K records spelled Laila4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Laila, Laïla

  • Finnish given name38K records spelled Laila28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Morocco, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Laïla, Lâilâ, Lâîlä, Läïlä, Làilà

  • Catalan given name6.4K records spelled Laila2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Laïla

  • a separate given name5.3K records spelled Laila9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Laïla, Lailā, Laĭla, Laíla, Läila

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Laila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Laila (m.fl. former) är ett samiskt namn som antas hänga samman med kvinnonamnet → Aila. Namnet fick spridning på 1880-talet genom översättningar av norrmannen J.A. Friis bok Fra Finnmarken; alla senare utgåvor bär titeln Laila. Stavat Leila eller Layla finns namnet också i arabiskan med betydelsen ’natt’ (→ Leila). I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 juli och i den finlandssvenska 5 mars.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, night

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • black, a famous Arab

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Notte

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • 1 English: variant spelling of LEILA . 2 Scandinavian: ancient name of Saami origin, not uncommon in modern Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Top

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900195020002.4K · 2008

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Laila in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18847
18935
18995
19036
19086
19095
19107
19119
191212
191312
191422
191523
191625
191719
191817
191929
192025
192131
192211
192326
19248
192519
192614
192717
192811
192915
193013
193110
193210
193314
193412
19357
193611
193711
193811
19398
19406
19417
194210
194315
19446
194510
194610
19479
19489
19497
195111
195210
195320
195411
195515
195612
195717
195823
195917
196018
196117
196225
196325
196425
196520
196629
196717
196821
196923
197024
197124
197234
197347
197453
197562
197660
197749
197863
197958
198064
198172
198256
198376
198479
198570
198679
198759
198860
198979
199078
1991101
1992100
199396
199487
1995110
1996111
1997116
1998131
1999168
2000389
2001612
2002801
20031,306
20041,282
20051,453
20061,445
20072,365
20082,414
20092,379
20102,249
20112,198
20122,250
20132,143
20142,147
20151,889
20161,951
20171,751
20181,620
20191,461
20201,303
20211,253
20221,031
2023989
2024844
2025755

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 121 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Leila Hyams, b. 1905Leila Khaled, b. 1944Laila Morse, b. 1945Laila Robins, b. 1959Leila Pahlavi, b. 1970Laila Rouass, b. 1971Leila Hatami, b. 1972Laila Ali, b. 1977Leila Lopes, b. 1986Leila George, b. 1992
  • Leila Hyamsb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1905-1977)
  • Leila Khaledb. 1944LBnot in their usual namePalestinian refugee, former militant, and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • Laila Morseb. 1945GBEnglish actress (born 1945)
  • Laila Robinsb. 1959USAmerican actress
  • Leila Pahlavib. 1970IRnot in their usual nameIranian princess (1970-2001)
  • Laila Rouassb. 1971GBBritish actress
  • Leila Hatamib. 1972IRnot in their usual nameIranian actress
  • Laila Alib. 1977USAmerican television personality and retired professional boxer
  • Leila Lopesb. 1986AOnot in their usual nameAngolan beauty pageant titleholder
  • Leila Georgeb. 1992AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 100 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Laila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202238K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38K#694
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202036K#1,132
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—31K#132
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—31K#1,086
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12K#352
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20259.7K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9K#465
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20207.7K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.4K#751
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.4K#108
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.8K#419

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,189 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Laila?
We estimate roughly 120 thousand people bear Laila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Laila have the most bearers?
We estimate about 38 thousand people bear Laila in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laila.
Where is Laila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laila is densest in Norway — about 1 in 561 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is Laila compared with other names?
In Brazil, Laila is the 790th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Laila a male or female name?
Laila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Laila mean?
Recorded meaning: night; also used for Layla/Leila.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laila” — the 790th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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