Leiĺa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leiĺa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā).
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.5K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3.5K
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 Leiĺa 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #63 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 670 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000,000 named Li, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Leyla in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, Li in CN China, TW Taiwan and Leila in BR Brazil, GE Georgia.
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)Ultimately from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A Handbook of African Names
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leiĺa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | — | Li | 266 |
| MY Malaysia | #19 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 2.9K | Lee | 216 |
| TR Türkiye | #56 | 185,230as Leyla | 1 in 443 | 185K | Leyla | 114 |
| US United States | #31 | 164,578as Lee | 1 in 2K | 696K | Lee | 670 |
| GB United Kingdom | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 464 | 2.2K | Lee | 408 |
| BR Brazil | #310 | 94,285 | 1 in 2.2K | 102K | Leila | 172 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Li | 187 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #2 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 2.4K | Leyla | 79 |
| GE Georgia | #41 | 16,232as ლეილა | 1 in 246 | 16K | Leila | 39 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TÜİK NIP — most used given names; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 Leiĺa mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and A concise dictionary of first names and 6 other sources.
- Is Leiĺa a male or female name?
- Leiĺa 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Leiĺa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Malaysia, Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Leiĺa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leiĺa is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leiĺa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 94,285 people named Leiĺa in 2022, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Leiĺa compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Leiĺa is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lei%C4%BAaThe 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, “Leiĺa” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.