Entry № 5800 · Arabic origin

Laylah Laylah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "night".

Laylah is a variant spelling of Layla, the Arabic name meaning night.

Night — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Laylah
Transliteration
Laylah
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Laylah stands.

Laylah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Laylahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Laylah.

The number behind Laylah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Laylah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.