girls:
53k births since 1880
#558 (90th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1941
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
53k births since 1880
#1043 (87th percentile)
The name Leila is the #1,043 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,032 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #558 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 53,021 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1941.
Leila has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1941 for boys).
The name Leila has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leila reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 78.9% percentile (ranked #200) with 770 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 906 births per million (ranked 44.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leila ranks #228 for girls (76.0% percentile) with 722 births per million, which is 79.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leila reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #525) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leila".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Leila", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 27 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Layla" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Layla..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leila. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.2% confident that Leila is pronounced as LAY-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-luh, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L EY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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