Làyla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Làyla is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a well-known character in Arabic literature, the beloved of Majnoon.
- USUnited States1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 10K
- BRBrazil1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 404 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
84,915 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Layla in US United States, ES Spain, SE Sweden and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a well-known character in Arabic literature, the beloved of Majnoon
Cited for this meaning 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A Handbook of African Names
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Làyla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 84,915 | 1 in 3.9K | 85K | Layla | 404 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20,577 | 1 in 10K | 21K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,328 | 1 in 21K | 2.3K | Layla | 46 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,659 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | — | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 809 | 1 in 13K | 809 | Layla | 30 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #188 | — | — | — | Layla | 1 |
84,915 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Làyla mean, and where does it come from?
- a well-known character in Arabic literature, the beloved of Majnoon Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A Handbook of African Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Làyla a male or female name?
- Làyla is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Làyla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 85 thousand people named Làyla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled layla.
- Where is Làyla most common?
- Làyla is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Làyla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 84,915 people named Làyla in 2020, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Làyla compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Làyla is the 188th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A0ylaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Làyla” — the 188th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.