Leilah

Where Leilah comes from

The dictionaries list Leilah as a given name — a female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,502 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Leilah Sutherland born
    British actress
  3. 1985
    Leilah Babirye born
    Ugandan-born American visual artist, wood sculptor
  4. 2010
    Peak, #1,000
    251 babies named Leilah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,753.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila.
Namesakes
  • Leilah Babirye · Ugandan-born American visual artist, wood sculptor, born 1985
  • Leilah Sutherland · British actress, born 1985
  • Leilah Weinraub · American filmmaker, conceptual artist and former CEO, born 1979
  • Leilah Moreno · Brazilian actress, born 1987
  • Leilah Assunção · Brazilian writer, born 1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.