Leila Forename
605th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,301,993 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Iran
Leila Forename Definition:
A female name. Persian, the name of the heroine of the popular tale of Leila and Majnun. Byron used it in The Giaour, and thus promoted its use as a christian name in the 19th C.
Leila Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 100% | 743,012 | 1:106 | 12 |
| Algeria | 99% | 158,384 | 1:241 | 43 |
| Brazil | 97% | 105,745 | 1:2,026 | 315 |
| Morocco | 100% | 56,476 | 1:608 | 127 |
| United States | 100% | 25,398 | 1:14,274 | 1,351 |
| France | 100% | 15,864 | 1:4,190 | 403 |
| Georgia | 100% | 15,292 | 1:244 | 43 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 14,460 | 1:3,651 | 639 |
| Finland | 100% | 12,569 | 1:436 | 120 |
| Mozambique | - | 12,480 | 1:2,183 | 479 |
| Philippines | 99% | 11,861 | 1:8,938 | 1,250 |
| Kenya | 100% | 10,350 | 1:4,474 | 722 |
| Egypt | 96% | 7,461 | 1:12,318 | 1,114 |
| Chad | 100% | 5,375 | 1:2,530 | 358 |
| England | 100% | 5,348 | 1:10,397 | 814 |
| Uganda | 99% | 5,245 | 1:7,809 | 842 |
| Somalia | - | 4,627 | 1:2,923 | 424 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4,604 | 1:6,693 | 1,031 |
| Sudan | 100% | 4,561 | 1:8,289 | 1,143 |
| Colombia | 100% | 4,560 | 1:10,478 | 921 |
| Angola | - | 3,779 | 1:7,136 | 961 |
| India | 82% | 3,278 | 1:370,616 | 32,451 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,190 | 1:10,387 | 1,193 |
| Argentina | 100% | 3,090 | 1:13,842 | 778 |
| Spain | 100% | 3,023 | 1:15,392 | 1,003 |
| Sweden | 100% | 2,704 | 1:3,646 | 462 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 2,461 | 1:1,664 | 192 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 2,119 | 1:14,253 | 1,371 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 2,023 | 1:8,773 | 804 |
| Libya | - | 2,020 | 1:3,080 | 527 |
| Somaliland | - | 1,670 | 1:2,097 | 307 |
| Peru | 100% | 1,602 | 1:19,845 | 1,601 |
| Portugal | - | 1,596 | 1:6,523 | 472 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,565 | 1:7,342 | 925 |
| Honduras | 100% | 1,518 | 1:5,809 | 726 |
| Niger | 96% | 1,433 | 1:13,387 | 1,161 |
| Russia | 100% | 1,387 | 1:103,990 | 1,953 |
| Djibouti | - | 1,327 | 1:690 | 158 |
| Gabon | - | 1,283 | 1:1,468 | 355 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,280 | 1:96,988 | 2,527 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1,258 | 1:193 | 30 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,243 | 1:13,598 | 1,479 |
| Italy | 100% | 1,237 | 1:49,363 | 1,339 |
| Denmark | - | 1,192 | 1:4,740 | 572 |
| Tunisia | 90% | 1,161 | 1:583 | 109 |
| Mali | 100% | 1,160 | 1:14,636 | 1,129 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,156 | 1:84,395 | 6,393 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,133 | 1:85,329 | 1,924 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,048 | 1:246,149 | 22,614 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 1,038 | 1:43,834 | 530 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 995 | 1:4,792 | 622 |
| Jamaica | - | 954 | 1:3,022 | 600 |
| Chile | 99% | 894 | 1:19,695 | 1,086 |
| Ecuador | - | 862 | 1:20,565 | 1,175 |
| Ghana | 100% | 843 | 1:32,012 | 2,007 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 839 | 1:9,982 | 1,040 |
| South Africa | 100% | 807 | 1:67,575 | 6,301 |
| Australia | - | 802 | 1:17,029 | 1,283 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 718 | 1:45,437 | 2,325 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 685 | 1:11,991 | 1,082 |
| Cape Verde | - | 618 | 1:856 | 135 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 606 | 1:11,942 | 1,041 |
| Romania | 100% | 584 | 1:34,336 | 2,172 |
| New Zealand | - | 521 | 1:8,706 | 976 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 518 | 1:13,807 | 1,456 |
| Greece | 100% | 508 | 1:21,525 | 1,036 |
| Panama | 100% | 484 | 1:8,071 | 1,163 |
| Israel | 100% | 436 | 1:19,273 | 1,852 |
| Thailand | 100% | 435 | 1:161,071 | 11,491 |
| Bahrain | - | 429 | 1:3,144 | 507 |
| Cameroon | 96% | 419 | 1:51,576 | 3,342 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 389 | 1:26,816 | 2,265 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 375 | 1:28,270 | 1,639 |
| Hungary | 100% | 362 | 1:27,049 | 453 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 339 | 1:54,217 | 3,588 |
| Togo | - | 330 | 1:21,937 | 3,753 |
| Guyana | 100% | 325 | 1:2,348 | 458 |
| Norway | 100% | 311 | 1:16,503 | 1,093 |
| Estonia | 100% | 297 | 1:4,429 | 698 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 287 | 1:20,970 | 1,558 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 285 | 1:28,605 | 2,844 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 262 | 1:204 | 44 |
| El Salvador | - | 258 | 1:24,581 | 1,163 |
| Congo | 100% | 256 | 1:19,567 | 2,047 |
| Kuwait | - | 256 | 1:14,786 | 1,684 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 252 | 1:122,168 | 3,329 |
| Poland | 100% | 236 | 1:161,132 | 3,078 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 229 | 1:10,737 | 948 |
| French Polynesia | - | 227 | 1:1,224 | 271 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 219 | 1:15,651 | 971 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 212 | 1:143,632 | 9,132 |
| Cuba | - | 209 | 1:55,055 | 1,618 |
| Scotland | 100% | 207 | 1:25,847 | 1,122 |
| Wales | 100% | 197 | 1:15,707 | 984 |
| Austria | 100% | 196 | 1:43,440 | 1,394 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 187 | 1:127,111 | 13,722 |
| Benin | 100% | 181 | 1:58,430 | 4,345 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 181 | 1:88,997 | 2,102 |
| China | - | 168 | 1:8,131,284 | 59,470 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 167 | 1:32,772 | 645 |
| Czechia | 100% | 161 | 1:66,187 | 955 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 155 | 1:8,783 | 1,332 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 143 | 1:1,889 | 381 |
| Senegal | 98% | 139 | 1:104,902 | 2,929 |
| Ireland | 100% | 133 | 1:34,914 | 1,338 |
| Vanuatu | - | 133 | 1:1,968 | 489 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 131 | 1:27,102 | 1,042 |
| DR Congo | 87% | 130 | 1:567,905 | 19,370 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 113 | 1:204,212 | 10,117 |
| Azerbaijan | 98% | 100 | 1:96,429 | 4,382 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 89 | 1:1,995,105 | 40,173 |
| Croatia | 100% | 87 | 1:48,472 | 1,708 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 80 | 1:7,051 | 658 |
| Latvia | 100% | 78 | 1:25,842 | 1,027 |
| Haiti | 100% | 77 | 1:139,311 | 7,021 |
| Barbados | - | 76 | 1:3,813 | 657 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 76 | 1:2,526 | 485 |
| Turkey | 100% | 68 | 1:1,144,143 | 10,686 |
| Bahamas | - | 62 | 1:6,441 | 914 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 57 | 1:3,409,784 | 38,264 |
| Namibia | - | 48 | 1:50,087 | 3,122 |
| Singapore | 100% | 44 | 1:142,888 | 7,923 |
| Albania | 100% | 41 | 1:74,307 | 5,793 |
| Serbia | 100% | 37 | 1:193,128 | 3,549 |
| Zambia | - | 34 | 1:466,317 | 11,078 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 32 | 1:110,139 | 3,000 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 26 | 1:229,741 | 10,423 |
| Qatar | 100% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| Belize | 100% | 25 | 1:14,172 | 1,847 |
| Iraq | - | 24 | 1:1,459,077 | 10,051 |
| Jordan | - | 24 | 1:367,782 | 3,366 |
| Syria | - | 24 | 1:804,420 | 3,047 |
| Hong Kong | - | 23 | 1:337,075 | 3,808 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 23 | 1:2,377 | 477 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 22 | 1:2,233 | 458 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 22 | 1:1,578 | 368 |
| Botswana | - | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Armenia | 100% | 19 | 1:153,619 | 3,166 |
| Bermuda | - | 19 | 1:3,412 | 618 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 19 | 1:3,226 | 656 |
| Japan | - | 19 | 1:6,736,108 | 30,453 |
| Liberia | 100% | 19 | 1:232,214 | 7,898 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 19 | 1:5,873 | 978 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| Guam | - | 14 | 1:11,475 | 1,503 |
| Lebanon | - | 14 | 1:401,969 | 5,774 |
| Oman | - | 14 | 1:293,476 | 3,954 |
| Monaco | 100% | 13 | 1:2,959 | 566 |
| Belarus | 100% | 12 | 1:790,199 | 4,447 |
| Kosovo | - | 12 | 1:155,120 | 6,935 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 12 | 1:9,146 | 1,253 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 12 | 1:1,285,318 | 41,030 |
| American Samoa | - | 11 | 1:5,077 | 963 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 11 | 1:52,814 | 3,146 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 9 | 1:528,109 | 348 |
| Malawi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,901,368 | 9,999 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Jersey | - | 8 | 1:12,498 | 955 |
| South Korea | - | 8 | 1:693,053 | 14,847 |
| Moldova | 100% | 7 | 1:508,734 | 3,126 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 7 | 1:25,402 | 2,434 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 6 | 1:307,191 | 2,078 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 6 | 1:79,273 | 1,016 |
| Mauritius | - | 5 | 1:259,557 | 4,811 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 5 | 1:1,062,013 | 3,906 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Lithuania | - | 3 | 1:983,961 | 3,563 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Grenada | 100% | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Guinea | 100% | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 2 | 1:18,928 | 806 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | - | 2 | 1:3,158 | 343 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nepal | 100% | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Vietnam | - | 1 | 1:92,623,113 | 10,484 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Leïla (4,981), Léila (25), Leîla (5), Leíla (4), Leilä (1), Lêila (1), Leilá (1) & Léïla (5) are calculated separately.
Leila (12,670) may also be a surname.
Leila Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Persian, the name of the heroine of the popular tale of Leila and Majnun. Byron used it in The Giaour, and thus promoted its use as a christian name in the 19th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Occasionally LEILAH. Probably, through the Moors, from Arabic (‘darkness’ or ‘night’), it has been to some extent popularised by Byron’s Mohammedan child in Don Juan and by his unfortunate heroine in The Giaour. (Harvey.)
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Arabic (feminine) - Night, fig. a dark beauty.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Arabic name, meaning: Dark oriental beauty.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Leila Forename Popularity
Leila Demographics
Leila Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 4,825 (2014)
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Leila Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Leila in the Russian language | ||
| Леила | leila | - |
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