Lailah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lailah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 534K
  • SESweden1 in 1.5M

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)

4,590 people, 2020

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lailah 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.

Where Lailah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,5901 in 72K4.6KLailah9
BR Brazil711 in 3M71——
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——
NL Netherlands81 in 2.2M8——
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7——

4,590 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lailah under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lailah mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Lailah a male or female name?
Lailah 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 Lailah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Lailah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lailah.
Where is Lailah most common?
Lailah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lailah?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,590 people named Lailah in 2020, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.

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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, “Lailah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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