Lyla is a variant spelling of Layla — from the Arabic laylā (ليلى), meaning "night." The famous Persian-Arabic love story of Layla and Majnun has carried the name for over a millennium.
Lyla emerged as a Western variant in the 2000s and has been climbing. Today it sits in the U.S. top 130.
Lyla 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lyla reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.