Name meaning & stats
Layla
Layla means “night” (Arabic origin). 129,245 US babies since 1940, peak 2019.
What it means
“night”
ArabicWell documented
A form of Leila.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2019
129,245 US babies were named Layla between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Layla (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 69% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2019)