Lejla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Lejla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Lejla mean?
Arabic: Bosnian and Albanian form of Layla
“night”
Is Lejla a girl's or a boy's name?
Lejla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lejla in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Lejla, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2015, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lejla in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,460 girls in the UK were given Lejla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #32, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Lejla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
| 1997 | 2 | #5,038 |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
How popular is Lejla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 19% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Lejla, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 47 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Lejla than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Lejla in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 8,110 girls in the US were given Lejla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #15, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Lejla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,457 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,542 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,074 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,071 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,869 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,481 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,668 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,642 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,815 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,528 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,885 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,252 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,266 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
Names like Lejla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Noa Safa Lyla Hafsa Dua Ayla Luna Nala Syeda Zara Liyana Hiba
Other spellings of Lejla
More Arabic names
Muhammad Mohammed Mohammad Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo Zainab
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, “Lejla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lejla, updated 20 October 2026.