Liyla
Girl · LEE-lah · Arabic
Liyla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Liyla mean?
Arabic: probably a spelling of Layla or Lila
“night”
- Say it
- LEE-lah
Is Liyla a girl's or a boy's name?
Liyla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Liyla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Liyla, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Liyla in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 158 girls in the US were given Liyla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,241, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Liyla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
Names like Liyla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Sama Hafsa Rahma Zayla Raha Zahara Zaina Amoura Ayra Huda Zaya
Other spellings of Liyla
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