Leylah

Where Leylah comes from

The dictionaries list Leylah 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. 2000
    First appearance
    #10,745 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2022
    Peak, #2,720
    63 babies named Leylah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila.
Namesakes

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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.