Lila has multiple origins. In Arabic, it is a variant of Layla (ليلى), meaning "night." In Sanskrit, līlā (लीला) is a profound philosophical concept meaning "divine play" — the universe as the playful creation of the divine.
Lila has been rising rapidly in the U.S. since 2003.
Lila 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lila reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.