Leyli
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- lay-LEE
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Leyli is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Leyli mean?
Arabic: Persian and Azerbaijani form of Layla
“night”
Leyli is the heroine of the Persian love story Leyli and Majnun, retold by the poet Nizami in 1188.
Is Leyli a girl's or a boy's name?
Leyli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leyli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Leyli, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Leyli in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Leyli in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
Names like Leyli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaylani, Kailani, Kehlani, Malani, Meilani, Alani, Kalani, Milani, Nalani, Naylani, Jaylani, Layla
Names related to Leyli
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from 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, “Leyli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leyli, updated 20 October 2026.