Laelah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-luh
- Origin
- Arabic
Laelah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Laelah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Laela, itself a spelling variant of Leila or Layla
“night”
Layla is the heroine of the classic Arabic love story Layla and Majnun.
Meaning borrowed from Laela.
Is Laelah a girl's or a boy's name?
Laelah is a girls' name.
How popular is Laelah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 41 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Laelah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Laelah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,715 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,788 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,696 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Laelah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Hadassah Sariyah Safa Layla Selah Leilah Zainab Farah Zaniyah Nusaybah Layan
Names related to Laelah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Laelah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laelah, updated 20 October 2026.