as a First Name
Of Arabic origin, now fairly common in the English-speaking world, having been used as a name for an oriental beauty both by Byron, in The Giaour (1813) and Don Juan (1819–24), and by Lord Lytton for the heroine of his novel Leila (1838). In Arabic it means ‘night’, apparently alluding to a dark complexion.
| 1,313th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,794
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 25,666
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Leila per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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