Lyla-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-la-MAY
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Lyla-May is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Lyla-May mean?
Arabic: Lyla + May
“night + the month of May”
Joins Lyla (Arabic, “night”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Lyla and May.
Is Lyla-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Lyla-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lyla-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Lyla-May, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lyla-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the UK were given Lyla-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #641, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Lyla-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
Names like Lyla-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Zainab, Khadija, Abeeha, Liyana, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Ruqayyah, Hiba
Other spellings of Lyla-May
Names related to Lyla-May
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, 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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lyla-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyla-may, updated 20 October 2026.