Léyla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Léyla is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Likely from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā).
- TRTürkiye1 in 443(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 6.4K
- ECEcuador1 in 9.6K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 443 (inferred from the name graph)
185,230 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leyla in TR Türkiye, US United States, ES Spain.
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)Likely from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A Handbook of African Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Léyla 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.
185,230 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Léyla mean, and where does it come from?
- Likely from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Léyla a male or female name?
- Léyla is a female 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 Léyla have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 185 thousand people named Léyla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leyla.
- Where is Léyla most common?
- Léyla is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 443 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Léyla?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 185,230 people named Léyla in 2025, about 1 in 443 residents.
What do you want to know about Léyla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9ylaThe 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, “Léyla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.