Lejla

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lee in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Li in CN China, FR France, ES Spain, Leila in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, GE Georgia and Lili in HU Hungary, PE Peru, MX Mexico.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Lejla is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name10K records spelled Lejla7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Austria, United States, Germany, Netherlands

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written Lejlae, Lejlä

• Danish given name2.3K records spelled Lejla7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Léjla

• Czech given name1.0K records spelled Lejla3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Azerbaijan, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Lejlá

• a separate given name240 records spelled Lejla2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

  Also written Lejlâ

34 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●

Lejla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Maltese, night (evening or night spent at a particular activity)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 94 years between 1895–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Leyla Gencerb. 1928TRnot in their usual nameTurkish opera singer (1924–2008)
• Leyla Zanab. 1961TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (born 1961)
• Leyla Milanib. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor and model
• Leyla Bouzidb. 1984TNnot in their usual nameTunisian film director
• Leyla Əliyevab. 1985AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani journalist
• Leyla Aliyevab. 1986AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani television-presenter, born 1986
• Leyla Lydia Tuğutlub. 1989TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1989)
• Leila Ismailavab. 1989BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian television presenter and journalist
• Hazal Kayab. 1990TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1990)
• Leyla Tanlarb. 1997TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1997)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 466 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lejla?

We estimate roughly 724 thousand people bear Lejla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Lejla have the most bearers?

Lejla is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled li.

How common is Lejla compared with other names?

In China, Lejla is the 5th most common surname of 134,008 surnames recorded there.

Is Lejla a male or female name?

Lejla 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.