Leila

Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
4/5/2022, 10:13 PM	Mike C	update #112
5/29/2020, 9:30 PM	Mike C	update #108
11/16/2019, 11:04 AM	Mike C	update #105
12/8/2017, 12:41 PM	Mike C	update #97
12/3/2014, 12:28 AM	Mike C	update #89
3/21/2014, 10:33 PM	Mike C	update #88
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM	Mike C	earliest recorded revision

Gender Feminine

Usage Persian, Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, Georgian

Scripts لیلا(Persian) ليلى(Arabic) لەیلا(Kurdish Sorani) ლეილა(Georgian)

Pronounced Pron. /lej.ˈlɒː/(Persian) /ˈlaj.laː/(Arabic) /ˈleɪ.lə/(English) /ˈli.lə/(English) /ˈlaɪ.lə/(English) /lɛj.la/(French)

Meaning & History

Variant of Layla, and the usual Persian transcription.

This spelling was used by Lord Byron for characters in The Giaour (1813) and Don Juan (1819), and it is through him that the name was introduced to the English-speaking world.