Baby name
RISING
🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇹🇷 Leyla
/LAY · lah/
Meaning
“Night”
Turkish and Arabic variant of Layla, from the Arabic 'layl' meaning night; carried by the poet Nizami's tragic heroine Layla in the 12th-century romance Layla and Majnun.
Nicknames
ley
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Romantic and rising; the Turkish spelling gives it distinction from the crowded Layla market.
The cultural moment.
Rising strongly in Germany and Austria since 2015; a fashionable choice among Turkish-German communities and beyond.