Leila

• Leyla, Leilah, Leylah, Laila, Layla, Lailah, Laylah, Lela, Lelah

From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪlə/, (some women, esp. US) /ˈliːlə/
• Rhymes: -eɪlə, (esp. US) -iːlə

Leila (plural Leilas)

1. A female given name from Arabic.
   • 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12:

     Oh! who young Leila’s glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?

   • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 220:

     "Leila!" she said enigmatically. "Have you seen her?" / "I went to her flat last week with Dad—he likes her." / "Delilah is her real name, you know. All men like her. And Captain Fort is her lover."

• Allie, ileal

Ultimately from Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯lɑ/, [ˈle̞i̯lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eilɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Lei‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): Lei‧la

Leila

1. a female given name from Arabic
   • 2019, Riikka Pelo, Kaikki elävä, Teos, →ISBN, page 438:

     Leila katsoi ohitseni koko ajan, niin hän oli tehnyt jo aamulla. Hän oli edesmenneen äitini sukupolvea, paksunahkainen, ankaran työn muovaama, eksoottisesta nimestään huolimatta persjalkainen maatiaisnainen, kuten Aku sanoisi.

     Leila looked past me constantly as she had been doing since the morning. She was from the generation of my deceased mother, thick-skinned, a character shaped by hard work, but despite her exotic name, a 'duck-legged country woman', as Aku would say.

• Leila is the 76^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,919 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,197 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Laila

• aille

• Leïla

• IPA^(key): /lej.la/ ~ /lɛj.la/

Leila f

1. a female given name from Arabic

• aille, aillé, allie, allié

• Lejla

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛjlɒ]
• Hyphenation: Lei‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Leila

1. a female given name

• Hyphenation: Lei‧la

Leila f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈleila/ [ˈlei̯.la]
• Rhymes: -eila
• Syllabification: Lei‧la

Leila f

1. a female given name