Leyli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎejʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leyli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Turkmenistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bk. Leylâ.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 5.3K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leyli itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Turkmenistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лейли in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
bk. Leylâ
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leyli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #273 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 70K | Leyli | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Leyli | 21 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #487 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 213 | Leyli | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 84K | #1,292 | Лейли | 113 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Лейли | 6 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Leyli | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 21 | Leyli | 6 |
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: This page lists the most common male names in Turkmenistan along with their frequencies.; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leili Muugab. 1922EEnot in their usual nameEstonian painter (1922-2016)
- Leili Andreb. 1922EEnot in their usual nameEstonian poet (1922-2007)
- Leili Bluumerb. 1928EEnot in their usual nameEstonian actor and theatrical pedagogue (1928-2004)
- Leili Järvab. 1936EEnot in their usual nameEstonian botanist and mycologist (1936-2010)
- Leili Iherb. 1941EEnot in their usual nameEstonian literary critic (1941-2015)
- Leili Pärnpuub. 1950EEnot in their usual nameEstonian chess player (1950–2022)
- Leili Anvarb. 1967IRnot in their usual nameFrench Iranist academic, writer and translator
- Leili Rashidib. 1973IRnot in their usual nameIranian actress
- Leyli Erolb. 1980AZTurkish-Azerbaijani singer-songwriter (born 1980)
- Leyli Salayevab. 1985AZAzerbaijani writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 213 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #54,849 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Leyli?
- In the etymology graph, Leyla, Lila and Leila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Leyli?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎejʎi/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Leyli a male or female name?
- Leyli 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.
- What does the name Leyli mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Leylâ
- In which country does Leyli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Leyli in Turkmenistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leyli.
- How common is the name Leyli?
- In Spain, the national register counted 20 people named Leyli, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Leyli compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Leyli is the 273rd most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leyli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leyliThe 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, “Leyli” — the 273rd most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.