Name meaning & stats
Lila
Lila means “night” (Arabic origin). 48,081 US babies since 1940, peak 2010.
What it means
“night”
ArabicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2010
48,081 US babies were named Lila between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lila (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: 23% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2010)