Laila-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-la-RAY
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Laila-Rae is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Laila-Rae mean?
Arabic: Laila + Rae
“night + ewe”
Joins Laila (Arabic, “night”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Laila and Rae.
Is Laila-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Laila-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Laila-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Laila-Rae, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 6 girls.
2025 had more girls named Laila-Rae than any year since 2014.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Laila-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Layla-Rae 8
- Laila-Rae 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Laila-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
Names like Laila-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Liyana, Layla, Amira, Khadija, Aisha, Fatima, Zainab, Lyla, Nusaybah, Elodie, Lottie, Annabelle
Other spellings of Laila-Rae
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Safa, Dua, Hana
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, “Laila-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laila-rae, updated 20 October 2026.