Layla

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Night, dark beauty”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Nisha — Night, goddess of night
• Nishant — Dawn, end of night, peaceful
• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Sharvari — Night, twilight
• Pournami — Full moon, night of the full moon
• Rakesh — Lord of full moon night

More girls' names of Arabic origin

• Inaaya — Gift of God, care
• Aisha — Alive, prosperous
• Zara — Flower, princess
• Samaira — Enchanting, jovial
• Aaliya — High, exalted, sublime
• Inaya — Gift from God

Where this comes from

Layla has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.