Leila

Leila (Persian: لیلا; Hebrew: לילה‎‎; Arabic: ليلى‎‎) is a feminine given name in the Iranian, Hebrew and Arabic languages.
Leila is the Arabic and Hebrew word for "night": laylah. The identification of the word "night" as the name of an angel originates with the interpretation of "Rabbi Yochanan" (possibly Yochanan ben Zakkai, c. 30–90 AD) who read "At night [Abraham] and his servants deployed against them and defeated them” (Genesis 14.15, JPS) as "by [an angel called] night" (Sanhedrin 96a).
The story of Qays and Layla or Layla and Majnun is based on the romantic poems of Qais Ibn Al-Mulawwah (قيس بن الملوح), who was nicknamed Majnoon Layla (مجنون ليلى), Arabic for "madly in love with Layla", his cousin Layla Al-Amiriah (ليلى العامرية) in 7th century Arabia. His poems are considered the paragon of unrequited chaste love. They later became a popular romance in medieval Iran, and use of the name spread accordingly. The name gained popularity further afield in the Muslim World, amongst Turkic peoples and in the Balkans and India.
Variant spellings include Laela, Laelah, Laila, Layla, Leïla, Leighla, Lejla and Leyla.
In the Nordic countries, Laila or Lajla (pronounced lie-lah) is derived from the Sami name Láilá, the Sami variant of Helga which means holy.

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Fem. proper name, from Arabic Laylah, from laylah "night."

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Dark-haired beauty, night.

Leyla, Laelah, Lila, Laila

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Leila de Lima	1959	Filipino politician
2	Leila Pahlavi	1970	Iranian princess
3	Leila Steinberg	1961	American writer
4	Leila Arcieri	1973	American actress
5	Leila Khaled	1944	Palestinian politician
6	Leila Forouhar	1959	Iranian actor and singer
7	Leila Hatami	1972	Iranian actress
8	Leila Hyams	1905	Actress
9	Leila Seth	1930	Indian judge
10	Leila Mimmack	1993	English actress
11	Leila Janah	1982	American businessman
12	Leila Cordeiro	1956	Brazilian journalist
13	Leila K	1971	Swedish musician
14	Leila Tong	1981	Actress
15	Leila McKinnon	1972	Australian journalist
16	Leila Hoffman	1934	British actor, comedian and writer
17	Leila Denmark	1898	American pediatrician
18	Leila Goldkuhl	1991
19	Leila Kenzle	1960	American actress
20	Leila Mourad	1918	Egyptian actor and singer
21	Leila Ahmed	1940	Egyptian-American writer and professor
22	Leila Aboulela	1964	Writer, playwright
23	Leila Sterenberg	1971	Brazilian journalist
24	Leila Barros	1971	Volleyball player
25	Leila Lopes	1959	Actress, journalist and television presenter
26	Leila Williams	1937	English beauty pageant winner
27	Leila Josefowicz	1977	American-Canadian classical violinist
28	Leila Waddell	1880	Aleister Crowley's Muse
29	Leila Danette	1909	African-American stage, film and television actress
30	Leïla Alaoui	1982	Moroccan-French photographer & video artist
31	Leila Arab	1971	Iranian musician
32	Leila Guerriero	1967	Argentinian writer and journalist
33	Leila Gerstein		American television producer and screenwriter
34	Leila Araghian	1983	Iranian architect
35	Leila Rajabi	1983	Iranian shot putter
36	Leila Davis
37	Leila Birch	1978	British actress
38	Leila Abouzeid	1950	Moroccan writer
39	Leila Djansi	1981	American and Ghanaian filmmaker
40	Leila Roy
41	Leila Kasra	1939	Persian poet
42	Leila Otadi	1983	Iranian actress
43	Leila Vaziri	1985	American swimmer, former world record-holder
44	Leila Schneps	1961	American mathematician
45	Leila Bloukat	1983	Iranian actor
46	Leila Shenna	2000	Moroccan actress
47	Leila Meskhi	1968	Soviet tennis player
48	Leila Luik	1985
49	Leila Miranda	1934	Brazilian actress
50	Leila Chicot	1979
51	Leila Hayes	1942	Soap Actress
52	Leila Al Solh	1946	Lebanese politician
53	Leila Esfandyari	1970	Iranian mountain climber
54	Leila Gurruwiwi	1988	Australian television presenter
55	Leila Schuster
56	Leila Ouahabi	1993	Spanish association football player
57	Leila Cravo	1953	Brazilian actress
58	Leila Fadel	1981	American journalist
59	Leila Diniz	1945	Brazilian actress
60	Leila Bela		American musician
61	Leila Feinstein	1972	American television anchor
62	Leila J. Rupp	1950	American historian
63	Leila Hadley	1926	American writer
64	Leila Bennett	1892	American actress
65	Leila Cobo		Colombian musician and writer
66	Leila Durante	1931	Italian actress
67	Leila Ross Wilburn	1885	American architect
68	Leila Ismailava	1989	Belarusian television presenter and journalist
69	Leila Sansour		Palestinian film director
70	Leila Kayondo	1988	Ugandan musician
71	Leila Shahid	1949	Palestinian diplomat
72	Leila Pinheiro	1960	Brazilian musician
73	Leila Chudori	1962	Indonesian writer
74	Leila Abashidze	1929	Actress, film director, writer
75	Leila Chebbi		Tunisian actor
76	Leila Lindholm	1975	Swedish writer and chef
77	Leila Berg	1917	British writer
78	Leila Benn Harris	1983	British actor and singer
79	Leila Ben Youssef	1981	Tunisian pole vaulter
80	Leila Abukar		Somali political activist
81	Leila Leigh	1975	American actress
82	Leila Nadya Sadat	1960	American writer
83	Leila Fréchet		French actress
84	Leila Farsakh	1967	Palestinian political scientist
85	Leila Richers	1955	Brazilian journalist
86	Leila Zerrougui	1956	Algerian legal expert
87	Leila Jenkins	1954	American businessman
88	Leila Deen	1979	British activist
89	Leila Kanaan		Lebanese film director
90	Leila Sbitani		American actress
91	Leila Buckley	1917	British writer
92	Leila Fletcher	1899	Canadian pianist
93	Leila Ghandi	1980	Moroccan television personality and photographer
94	Leila Itkonen	1926	Finnish actor (1926-2009)
95	Leila Míccolis	1947	Brazilian writer and poet
96	Leila Ebrahimi	1984	Iranian distance runner
97	Leila Mackinlay	1910	British novelist (1910-1996)
98	Leila Lahlou		Moroccan writer
99	Leila Aïchi	1970	French politician
100	Leila Abdul-Latif		Minister of Labour
101	Leila Schayegh	1975
102	Leila Farjami		Iranian writer
103	Leila Sobral	1974	Basketball player
104	Leila Agnes Sophie Hurle	1901	Principal, senior school inspector
105	Leila Rahimi
106	Leila Anderson	1984	South African artist
107	Leila Barclay		American journalist
108	Leila Laaraj		Belgian actor-singer
109	Leila Lassouani	1977	Algerian weightlifter
110	Leila Vennewitz		Canadian-English translator of German literature
111	Leila Crerar		Actress
112	Leila Badre	1943	Archaeologist
113	Leila Farias	1975
114	Leila Khastoo		K-pop DJ and artist
115	Leila Daw	1940	American artist
116	Leila Megane	1891	Welsh opera singer
117	Leila Gyenesei	1986	Hungarian modern pentathlete
118	Leila Aman	1977	Ethiopian distance runner
119	Leila Silva	1935
120	Leila Cherkaoui	1962	Moroccan painter
121	Leila Rachid de Cowles	1955	Paraguayan diplomat
122	Leila Tuure
123	Leila Amos Pendleton	1860	Writer
124	Leila Haaparanta	1954	Finnish philosopher, professor of philosophy (University of Tampere)
125	Leila Piccard	1971	Olympic alpine skier
126	Leila Rodríguez Stahl	1942
127	Leila Mills	1959	American judge
128	Leila Lejeune	1976	French handball player
129	Leila Christine Nadir		Afghan-American artist and writer
130	Leila Ameddah	1962	Painter
131	Leila Guarni		Italian actress
132	Leila Djabali	1933	Algerian writer
133	Leila Sujir	1951
134	Leila Locke
135	Leila Basen
136	Leila Lyytikäinen	1977	Finnish film producer
137	Laila Khan
138	Leila Säälik
139	Leila Abdelmoez	1996
140	Leila Philip		American writer
141	Leila Andrews	1876
142	Leila Lehtinen	1966	Finnish politician
143	Leila Dzyba		Abkhazian politician
144	Leila Macor	1971	Venezuelan writer
145	Leila T. Bauman
146	Leila Arjumand Banu	1929
147	Leila Leal Bittencourt
148	Leila Meflah	1982
149	Leila Yates	1899
150	Leila Kalliala	1930	Finnish journalist
151	Leila Toubel		Tunisian, screenwriter, actor and playwright
152	Leila Lotti
153	Leila Fernandes Peixoto	1932
154	Leila Marzocchi	1959	Italian comics artist
155	Leila De Floriani
156	Leila Faithfull	1896
157	Leila Chairani Budiman	1941
158	Leila Griswold Webb
159	Leila Laatikainen
160	Leila Tael-Mikešin
161	Leila Rydman-Kalervo
162	Kailey Leila	1996	Guyanese footballer
163	Leila Zitun