Given name · Persian
لیلا
لیلا (leylâ) is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in Persian.
PersianWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: leylâ.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Persian usage, لیلا developed from لَيْلَى.
لیلا’s family of names
In Persian usage, لیلا developed from the Arabic form لَيْلَى. In Persian usage, لیلا can be written in the Roman alphabet as leylâ. In Persian usage, لیلا has a related form in لیلی.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named لیلا
- Leila AraghianIranian architectborn 1983
- Leila KasraIranian contemporary poet and lyricist1939–1989
- Layla S. DibaIranian-American art historian and curatorborn 1948
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