Eilaf
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ee-LAAF
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Eilaf is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “familiarity, accustomed security”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Eilaf mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ilaf
“familiarity, accustomed security”
From the opening of Surah Quraysh in the Qur'an, which speaks of the ilaf, the customary security, of the Quraysh tribe.
Is Eilaf a girl's or a boy's name?
Eilaf is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Eilaf in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 367% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Eilaf, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Eilaf of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Eilaf or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Eilaf 6
- Ilaf 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Eilaf in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
Names like Eilaf
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Amal, Hiba, Hafsa, Rehmat, Nusaybah, Zainab, Rahaf, Rahma, Huda, Ayzal
Other spellings of Eilaf
Ilaf
Names related to Eilaf
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Eilaf: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/eilaf, updated 20 October 2026.