Lajla

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Lajla by the numbers

Lajla was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 6 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Lajla

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lajla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
  • Lailanight1,735 in the US (2017)
  • Laelanight; a form of Layla52 in the US (2017)
  • Lejlanight; a form of Layla22 in the US (2017)
  • Lala3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Leilanight, dark beauty1,400 in the US (2017)

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