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Girls Named Leila
This chart illustrates how many Girls were named Leila in the U.S. since 1880.
Records indicate that at least 34,742 girls have been named Leila since 1880 in the United States.
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Comment left Sep 19, 2011: "In German Leila is pronounced Lie-lah. The 'ei' is like the one in Heidi or Eileen. Of course, Layla and Lee-la are also correct. It depends on your language, where you're from. A gorgeous name and spelling in all cases." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Aug 02, 2010: "This is my name and it's often mispronounced and misspelled but I've gotten used to it. My name is pronounced Lay-la and spelled Leila. My cousin is named Leilani so they call me Leila and her Lani. Just so we don't get confused. Overall I love my name. I haven't met anyone with the same name yet but I hope to." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Mar 15, 2010: "I am due to have a baby any day now and if it's a girl I can't devide whether to spell it Layla or Leila... I love the Leila spelling but I don't want here to have issues with spelling and pronunciation." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 24, 2010: "I spell it Leila, pronounced Lay-la. It's not common, so I don't meet many people with this name. It's Arabic meaning "night" or "daughter of the night". As an adult I usually get a positive reaction to my name. I like it. If my daughter to have a baby girl, she would name her Leila." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Nov 18, 2009: "My baby is due in March and we are naming her Leila." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Dec 27, 2008: "like the eric clapton song layla. its a beautiful song wrotten by clapton to george harrison of the beatles wife" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Sep 27, 2008: "My name is Leila. Pronounced "lee eye la". I am 51 years old and have never met another person who pronounced it this way, although every so often I will meet people who know someone who does pronounce it the way my name is pronounced. I enjoy having an unusual name although in Jr Hi one of my teacher's could never say my name and ended up calling me "Hey you."" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Aug 24, 2008: "My name is Leila (lay-la), apparently I was named after the Palestinian activist Leila Khaled. (I used to tell that to everyone when I was little until I learned who she was, and now I usually keep quiet about it, haha.) I've always loved my name, and it suits me cos I'm dark-haired (: It does get mispronounced as lee-la a lot, but I still like my name." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Mar 10, 2008: "My two-year-old daughter's name is Leila and it's almost always pronounced correctly (Layla). I also get asked whether I named her after the Eric Clapton song, but actually the most famous Leila is from the ancient love story of Leila and Majnun--the Eastern version of Romeo and Juliet. Every Middle Eastern child knows this tale, and Leila is a very common name throughout the Middle East." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jul 08, 2007: "My daughter named Leila and I think it's the right way to spell...LOL" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left May 27, 2007: "I have wanted to name one of my children Leila as long as i can remember! it is so beautiful and just flows... lol. But when it comes to the spelling of it im not sure which one to use....Lejla would be grammatically correct in serbo-croatian(mother language) but it might be hard to say in english so i leila or layla... hard decision do you know which would be the easiest to pronounce for other people when they meet her?" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 18, 2007: "My daughter's name is Leia and she gets Leila all the time. She's actually getting used to it and named a puppet she was making Leila. She's now nearly five. At 3 1/2 yrs she was overheard muttering in her sleep 'It's not Leila, its not Leah, its Leia L E I A Leia.' Poor kid. Daddy's idea. But she seems to be more relaxed now." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 15, 2007: "We're planning on calling our new baby Leila (pronounced Lay'la) but my mother is worried about the effect of mispronunciations etc. Judging from the comments it seems like problems are common but that those with the name love it regardless. We're sticking with it - it's so pretty!" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 13, 2007: "My name is Lejla.. pronounced Lay-la like in Eric Claptons song... And people often get it wrong and call me Lila.. Pretty annoying :) Cuz I like my name as it is and think itýs very pretty!!" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Nov 29, 2006: "i love the name leila and if i have a girl when i'm older i want to call her liela coz its a gorgous name" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Sep 11, 2006: "We named our youngest daughter Leila and we also pronounce it 'Lay-la'. She so often gets called 'Lii-la', rather annoying" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jun 25, 2006: "It's my friends name but my name is also Laila... the only difference is that mine is spelt with a "A" .. the pernouciation is the same." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jun 13, 2006: "Very pretty. Sounds a little too 1980's/90's to me (think of the Sweet Valley Twins and their friend Leila)." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Apr 09, 2006: "My daughter's name is Leila, pronounced lay-la. People mispronounce it all the time (lee-la, lie-la) but I am still happy we went with this spelling. It's beautiful." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Mar 09, 2006: "Our baby is called Leila but we pronounce it lie-la as in Delila" (Report as inappropriate)
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