Layla-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-la-RAY
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Layla-Rae is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Layla-Rae mean?
Arabic: Layla + Rae
“night + ewe”
Joins Layla (Arabic, “night”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Layla and Rae.
Is Layla-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Layla-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Layla-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Layla-Rae, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Layla-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Layla-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Layla-Rae 8
- Laila-Rae 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Layla-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 16 | #1,871 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 15 | #1,988 |
| 2014 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
Names like Layla-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Liyana, Amira, Lottie, Lyla, Khadija, Layla, Fatima, Elodie, Elsie, Florence, Ayah, Ottilie
Other spellings of Layla-Rae
Laila-Rae
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Safa, Zainab
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-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/layla-rae, updated 20 October 2026.