Leighla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Leighla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Leighla mean?
Arabic: variant of Layla, influenced by Leigh
“night”
Layla and Majnun is a classic Arabic love story, retold by the Persian poet Nizami in the 12th century.
Is Leighla a girl's or a boy's name?
Leighla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leighla in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls.
Half of all the girls named Leighla in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Leighla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 20 | #1,622 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
How popular is Leighla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Leighla, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,931st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 63 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 6 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Leighla than any year since 2002.
Half of all the girls named Leighla in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 8,110 girls in the US were given Leighla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #15, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Leighla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,490 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,931 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,709 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,244 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,014 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,326 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,841 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,267 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,463 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,463 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,302 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,022 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,195 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,858 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,130 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,575 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Names like Leighla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Keira Orla Caoimhe Eden Kiara Eira Layla Sienna Aoife Fiadh Lyla Lyra
Other spellings of Leighla
More Arabic names
Muhammad Mohammed Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Leighla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leighla, updated 20 October 2026.