Leila
From Hebrew, where it carries the sense of "night". Fewer than a thousand Polish women share it, so most people here have never crossed paths with one, though it keeps drawing a few new parents each year.
Leila Pronunciation
Leila is pronounced le-EE-lah (/lɛˈila/).
What Leila means
Where Leila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leila begins in Hebrew, in the word laylah, meaning night. The name moved into Arabic and became bound up with it there, above all through the old story of Layla and Majnun, the poet driven half-mad by love for a woman named for the dark. Nizami set that tale into verse in the twelfth century, and it has been retold across the Arabic and Persian world ever since.
The meaning stayed close to the surface. Night is not a threat here. It is the cool hour after heat, the sky a name can point to.
In Poland the name arrives with no diminutives or variants to soften it. On a class register it sits plainly, five letters, foreign and clear. Leila. What a Polish child carries in it is the oldest sense of the word: night, noc.
How many people are named Leila
1 in 23983 women in Poland is named Leila. 940 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #989 among female names.
Leila's popularity over time
21 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #501 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where parents choose Leila
Leila is most popular in West Pomeranian, 174% above the national average (12 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+72%) and Pomeranian (+70%). It is least common in Łódź and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 70% and 65% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian
+174%1 in 7,035 babies
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Lower Silesian
+72%1 in 11,224 babies
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Pomeranian
+70%1 in 11,332 babies
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Łódź
−70%1 in 63,359 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−65%1 in 54,690 babies
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Lesser Poland
−57%1 in 45,383 babies
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West Pomeranian+174% 12 born1 in 7,035 babies+174%
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Lower Silesian+72% 14 born1 in 11,224 babies+72%
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Pomeranian+70% 13 born1 in 11,332 babies+70%
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Masovian+58% 29 born1 in 12,216 babies+58%
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Lubusz+55% 4 born1 in 12,414 babies+55%
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Greater Poland+52% 17 born1 in 12,661 babies+52%
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Warmian-Masurian−19% 3 born1 in 23,931 babies−19%
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Silesian−24% 9 born1 in 25,287 babies−24%
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Holy Cross−30% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−30%
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Lesser Poland−57% 5 born1 in 45,383 babies−57%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−65% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies−65%
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Łódź−70% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies−70%
Leila as a middle name
Leila is a first name for 940 women in Poland and a middle name for another 112, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 627th, between Iwetta (112) and Vivien (112).
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#625 Włodzimiera113
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#626 Iwetta112
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#627 Leila112
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#628 Vivien112
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#629 Wera112