Leylâ

given name · Latin script

Meaning: 1. Gece. 2. Saçları gece gibi simsiyah olan kadın

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Leylâ 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.

  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 120(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye1 in 443
  • SYSyria≈1 in 980

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 Leylâ 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)

≈14,000,000 named Li, est.

#63 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
670 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)

Azerbaijan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
LeeLatin(measured from records)
ЛейлаCyrillic(measured from records)
ליליHebrew(measured from records)
ไลลาThai(measured from records)
ԼիլիArmenian(measured from records)
ლეილაGeorgian(measured from records)
리리Hangul(measured from records)
ΙιGreek(measured from records)
ለኢላEthiopic(measured from records)

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 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)
recorded in Turkish

1. Gece. 2. Saçları gece gibi simsiyah olan kadın. 3. Arabi ayların son gecesi.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Leylâ 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 Leylâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈14,000,000 est.≈1 in 97—Li266
MY Malaysia#19≈210,000 est.≈1 in 1702.9KLee216
TR Türkiye#56185,2301 in 443185KLeyla114
US United States#31164,578as Lee1 in 2K696KLee670
GB United Kingdom#38≈150,000 est.≈1 in 4642.2KLee408
TW Taiwan—≈90,000 est.≈1 in 263—Li187
AZ Azerbaijan#2≈88,000 est.≈1 in 1162.4KLeyla79
GE Georgia#4116,232as ლეილა1 in 24616KLeila39

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); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Leylâ is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Leyla, Leylā

  • French given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Leyla, Leÿla, Ley'La, Lëyla, Léyla

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Leyla Gencer, b. 1928Leyla Əliyeva, b. 1985Hazal Kaya, b. 1990

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Leylâ 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

Is Leylâ a male or female name?
Leylâ 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 Leylâ mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Gece. 2. Saçları gece gibi simsiyah olan kadın.
Which countries have the most people named Leylâ?
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.
How common is the name Leylâ?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 185,230 people named Leylâ in 2025, about 1 in 443 residents.
How common is Leylâ compared with other names?
In Azerbaijan, Leylâ is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.

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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, “Leylâ” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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