Leili
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Leili by the numbers
Leili was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 9 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Leili
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 Leili. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Leilanight, dark beauty1,400 in the US (2017)
- Lililily; a diminutive of Lilith or Lilia72 in England and Wales (2025)
- Leslifrom the gray fortress; a spelling variant of Leslie16 in the US (2017)
- Leylinight; variant spelling of Layla9 in the US (2017)
- Lailinight; a respelled form of Layla or Leila5 in the US (2017)
- Leilaniheavenly flower2,264 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Leili
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