Entry № 5827 · Bosnian origin

Lejla Lejla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAY-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Bosnian
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ottoman (Bosnian)

A name that means "night".

Lejla is the Bosnian and Croatian form of the Arabic Layla — meaning "night" or "dark beauty." Used widely in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Muslim majority preserved the Arabic root through Ottoman heritage.

Lejla is widely used in the Western Balkans.

Night. The Bosnian Layla.

The name in its native script.

Lejla
Transliteration
Lejla
Pronunciation
/ ˈleɪ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lejla stands.

Lejla 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.

Lejlas before her.

Real people
Lejla Filipović
Bosnian singer.
In fiction
Lejla
Common in Bosnian fiction.

Names connected to Lejla.

The number behind Lejla.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lejla reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.