Layla-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-la-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Layla-May is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Layla-May mean?
Modern: combination of Layla and May
Joins Layla, the Arabic for night, with May, a pet form of Mary and Margaret and the name of the month.
Is Layla-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Layla-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Layla-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Layla-May, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 30 girls.
Half of all the girls named Layla-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Layla-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Layla-Mae 20
- Layla-May 9
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Layla-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 14 | #2,046 |
| 2019 | 25 | #1,368 |
| 2018 | 15 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | 26 | #1,356 |
| 2016 | 25 | #1,410 |
| 2015 | 23 | #1,474 |
| 2014 | 22 | #1,494 |
| 2013 | 26 | #1,365 |
| 2012 | 30 | #1,205 |
| 2011 | 28 | #1,238 |
| 2010 | 18 | #1,694 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
Nicknames for Layla-May
- Layla 954 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Layla-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Amira, Khadija, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Ayah, Hafsa, Liyana, Summer, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Layla-May
Names related to Layla-May
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Layla-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/layla-may, updated 20 October 2026.