Girl
Leila
Leila is a girl's name meaning "Arabic/Persian", drawing on Arabic roots. It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2010s than ever before. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
ArabicArabic/Persian
EtymologyMeaning "night"
Births by decade
1900s
1,529
1910s
2,830
1920s
3,340
1930s
2,474
1940s
1,858
1950s
1,739
1960s
1,578
1970s
1,625
1980s
2,099
1990s
2,173
2000s
9,898
2010s
11,137
Peaked in the 2010s · 42,280 total U.S. births since 1900