Leyla Forename
2,582nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 399,840 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Turkey
Highest density in:
Azerbaijan
Leyla Forename Definition:
Arabic (feminine) - Night, fig. a dark beauty.
Leyla Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 100% | 224,104 | 1:347 | 40 |
| Russia | 100% | 45,836 | 1:3,147 | 217 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 43,167 | 1:223 | 10 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 8,927 | 1:1,988 | 355 |
| Somalia | - | 7,619 | 1:1,775 | 290 |
| Uzbekistan | 99% | 6,560 | 1:4,693 | 819 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 4,048 | 1:1,352 | 293 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 3,888 | 1:2,154 | 392 |
| United States | 100% | 3,756 | 1:96,522 | 4,354 |
| Peru | 100% | 3,616 | 1:8,792 | 1,064 |
| Chile | 100% | 3,246 | 1:5,424 | 536 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3,085 | 1:17,111 | 1,840 |
| Honduras | 100% | 2,989 | 1:2,950 | 467 |
| Colombia | 100% | 2,835 | 1:16,853 | 1,244 |
| Kenya | - | 2,545 | 1:18,195 | 1,849 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 2,403 | 1:2,505 | 447 |
| Algeria | 100% | 2,390 | 1:15,974 | 1,061 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,969 | 1:49,100 | 1,436 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,857 | 1:115,367 | 6,127 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,734 | 1:56,263 | 5,093 |
| Niger | 98% | 1,576 | 1:12,173 | 1,083 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,542 | 1:80,509 | 2,325 |
| Morocco | - | 1,447 | 1:23,738 | 1,361 |
| England | 100% | 1,285 | 1:43,271 | 2,157 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1,082 | 1:5,521 | 877 |
| Egypt | 100% | 933 | 1:98,500 | 4,548 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 907 | 1:33,299 | 2,305 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 862 | 1:19,608 | 1,897 |
| France | 100% | 791 | 1:84,033 | 2,018 |
| Mali | 100% | 773 | 1:21,963 | 1,514 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 758 | 1:40,650 | 4,986 |
| Sweden | 100% | 749 | 1:13,161 | 1,057 |
| Iran | 100% | 694 | 1:113,108 | 2,731 |
| Belgium | 100% | 640 | 1:17,953 | 1,460 |
| Spain | 100% | 575 | 1:80,922 | 2,604 |
| Ecuador | - | 522 | 1:33,960 | 1,479 |
| Belarus | 99% | 491 | 1:19,312 | 346 |
| Panama | 100% | 484 | 1:8,071 | 1,163 |
| Canada | 100% | 481 | 1:68,884 | 4,050 |
| El Salvador | - | 460 | 1:13,786 | 885 |
| Armenia | 100% | 422 | 1:6,916 | 711 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 406 | 1:26,112 | 1,583 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 391 | 1:814 | 145 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 353 | 1:13,507 | 1,120 |
| Bulgaria | 99% | 343 | 1:20,380 | 1,547 |
| Guatemala | 95% | 290 | 1:55,546 | 1,761 |
| Indonesia | - | 274 | 1:941,473 | 59,476 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 272 | 1:38,350 | 2,842 |
| Mauritania | 99% | 232 | 1:17,652 | 1,309 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 231 | 1:35,556 | 1,854 |
| Argentina | 100% | 226 | 1:189,262 | 2,417 |
| Austria | 100% | 225 | 1:37,841 | 1,283 |
| Denmark | - | 221 | 1:25,563 | 1,343 |
| Senegal | 98% | 198 | 1:73,643 | 2,423 |
| Cuba | - | 148 | 1:77,747 | 1,837 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 147 | 1:125,030 | 6,369 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 146 | 1:24,317 | 998 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 140 | 1:24,483 | 1,221 |
| Norway | 100% | 106 | 1:48,418 | 2,029 |
| Italy | 100% | 95 | 1:642,759 | 6,358 |
| Georgia | 98% | 93 | 1:40,199 | 2,155 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 84 | 1:86,152 | 2,362 |
| Australia | - | 79 | 1:172,881 | 4,735 |
| South Africa | 100% | 70 | 1:779,038 | 32,293 |
| Philippines | 100% | 57 | 1:1,859,815 | 42,253 |
| DR Congo | 83% | 55 | 1:1,342,320 | 36,691 |
| Thailand | 99% | 50 | 1:1,401,316 | 44,950 |
| Moldova | - | 44 | 1:80,935 | 1,121 |
| Ivory Coast | 94% | 43 | 1:536,650 | 19,525 |
| Tunisia | - | 43 | 1:15,742 | 1,296 |
| Finland | 97% | 38 | 1:144,294 | 2,873 |
| Israel | 100% | 36 | 1:233,414 | 6,698 |
| Scotland | 100% | 36 | 1:148,621 | 2,961 |
| Kosovo | - | 34 | 1:54,748 | 3,968 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 30 | 1:81,959 | 2,631 |
| Malaysia | 91% | 29 | 1:1,049,998 | 36,559 |
| Benin | 100% | 28 | 1:377,709 | 14,020 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 25 | 1:7,680 | 1,043 |
| Czechia | 92% | 24 | 1:444,007 | 2,370 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 24 | 1:1,895,830 | 4,899 |
| Wales | 100% | 22 | 1:140,650 | 2,959 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| China | - | 19 | 1:71,897,673 | 63,377 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Greece | 100% | 18 | 1:607,475 | 7,461 |
| French Polynesia | - | 16 | 1:17,369 | 1,803 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 16 | 1:29,727 | 585 |
| Uganda | 100% | 15 | 1:2,730,461 | 31,621 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 15 | 1:476,800 | 16,943 |
| Romania | 100% | 14 | 1:1,432,284 | 22,395 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 13 | 1:18,725 | 1,070 |
| Ireland | 100% | 12 | 1:386,960 | 5,608 |
| India | 100% | 12 | 1:101,239,831 | 1,357,349 |
| Latvia | - | 12 | 1:167,970 | 2,495 |
| Estonia | - | 11 | 1:119,580 | 4,476 |
| Chad | 100% | 9 | 1:1,510,933 | 6,264 |
| North Macedonia | - | 8 | 1:261,345 | 7,184 |
| Jordan | - | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Belize | 100% | 6 | 1:59,052 | 4,175 |
| Japan | - | 6 | 1:21,331,010 | 46,700 |
| Singapore | - | 6 | 1:1,047,842 | 15,242 |
| Congo | 100% | 5 | 1:1,001,841 | 16,039 |
| South Korea | - | 5 | 1:1,108,884 | 18,705 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 4 | 1:881,114 | 5,655 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Guinea | - | 4 | 1:2,964,662 | 5,204 |
| Haiti | - | 4 | 1:2,681,738 | 23,796 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Syria | - | 4 | 1:4,826,519 | 5,774 |
| Albania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Croatia | - | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Monaco | 100% | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2 | 1:10,805,252 | 86,897 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Hong Kong | - | 2 | 1:3,876,362 | 13,851 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Jamaica | - | 2 | 1:1,441,614 | 15,741 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Taiwan | - | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Liberia | - | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Nigeria | - | 1 | 1:177,564,360 | 489,087 |
| Poland | 100% | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
The alternate forms: Leylâ (2) are calculated separately.
Leyla (9,764) may also be a surname.
Leyla Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Arabic (feminine) - Night, fig. a dark beauty.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Arabic name, meaning: Night.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Leyla Forename Popularity
Leyla Demographics
Leyla Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 533 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
Leyla Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Leyla in the Russian language | ||
| Лейла | lejla | - |
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