Liylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Liylah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Liylah come from?
Arabic: probably a variant of Layla; compare Lila
Is Liylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Liylah 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 Liylah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 5 girls.
Liylah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
How popular is Liylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Liylah, making it the 11,928th 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 2010.
2025 had fewer girls named Liylah than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Liylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Liylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
Names like Liylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Safa Ayah Zainab Izzah Hafsa Ruqayyah Abeeha Rahma Safaa Sumayyah Aaliyah
Names related to Liylah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Mohammad Zara 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, “Liylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/liylah, updated 20 October 2026.