Lylah-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-la-RAY
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Lylah-Rae is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Lylah-Rae mean?
Arabic: Lylah + Rae
“night + ewe”
Joins Lylah (Arabic, “night”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Lylah and Rae.
Is Lylah-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Lylah-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lylah-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Lylah-Rae, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 30 girls in the UK were given Lylah-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,037, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Lylah-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
Names like Lylah-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Ayah, Abeeha, Safa, Khadija, Amal, Amira, Ruqayyah, Hiba, Rehmat, Hafsa, Zainab
Other spellings of Lylah-Rae
Names related to Lylah-Rae
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Lylah-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lylah-rae, updated 20 October 2026.