Name: Leïla
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Leïla is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Leïla are in general originating from France.
Variants: For another variant of the name Leïla across the world, see Leila, Leilah.
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Numerology of the first name Leïla: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Leïla is ranked on the 113,394th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Leïla has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Laila, Layla, Leïla, Lejla, Laela, Laelah, or Leyla (Arabic: ليلى) is a feminine given name in the Arabic language. The name means "Dusk", the darkest stage of twilight in the evening. Over time it has been taken to mean "Born at Night," "Dark-haired Beauty" or "Dark Beauty."
The name has long been used in Persian folklore, poetry, and literature. The story of Qays and Layla or Layla and Majnun became a popular romance in medieval Iran, and use of the name spread accordingly; it gained popularity further afield in the Muslim World, among the Arabs, Turkic peoples and in the Balkans and India.
It has also acquired a following in the English-speaking world, especially after the 1970 hit song "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, the title of which may have been inspired by the medieval romance.
In the Nordic countries, Laila or Lajla (pronounced lie-lah) is derived from the Sami name Láilá, the Sami variant of Helga which means holy.
The name Lailah is the same as the Hebrew word for "night", laylah (לילה). The identification of the word "night" as the name of an angel originates with the interpretation of "Rabbi Yochanan" (possibly Yochanan ben Zakkai, c. 30–90 AD) who read "At night [Abraham] and his servants deployed against them and defeated them" (Genesis 14.14, JPS) as "by [an angel called] night" (Sanhedrin 96a).
Of Arabic origin, now fairly common in the English-speaking world, having been used as a name for an oriental beauty by both Byron, in The Giaour (1813) and Don Juan (1819–24), and by Lord Lytton for the heroine of his novel Leila (1838). In Arabic it means ‘night’, apparently alluding to a dark complexion.
Variants: Laila, Lila.
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