Name meaning & stats
Lyla
Lyla means “night” (Arabic origin). 47,131 US babies since 1940, peak 2025.
What it means
“night”
ArabicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2025
47,131 US babies were named Lyla between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lyla (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 4 Lilas spell it Lyla
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2025)