Lylla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,249 for girls
Lylla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 3,249th for girls in the US (48 babies).
What does Lylla mean?
Arabic: spelling of Lyla, itself a spelling of Lila or Layla
“night”
Respelling of Lila, itself a form of Layla, from the Arabic for night.
Meaning borrowed from Lyla. More on Wiktionary.
Is Lylla a girl's or a boy's name?
Lylla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 48 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lylla in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Lylla, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 girls.
In 2025, 1,795 girls in the UK were given Lylla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #14, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Lylla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
How popular is Lylla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,249among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 48about 1 in 33,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were named Lylla, making it the 3,249th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 59 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Lylla in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 7,055 girls in the US were given Lylla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #23, up from #3,249 for this spelling alone.
Lylla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,249 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,047 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,852 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
Names like Lylla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lyra Liyana Luna Isla Safa Zara Ayra Mila Layla Hafsa Lina Orla
Other spellings of Lylla
Names related to Lylla
More Arabic names
Muhammad Mohammed Mohammad Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo Zainab
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, “Lylla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lylla, updated 20 October 2026.