laylah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of laylah

What is the meaning of the name laylah ?

The baby name laylah is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈleɪlə/ (LAY-lah).

laylah is Arabic in Origin.

Laylah is a modern English spelling of the Arabic name Layla/Leila (ليلى), deriving from layl, “night,” with the long feminine -ā, yielding senses like “night,” “nighttime,” or poetically “born at night”/“dark beauty.” The name appears throughout classical Arabic verse and in the famed love story of Qays and Layla, later immortalized in Nizami Ganjavi’s 12th-century Persian romance Layli o Majnun. Through Ottoman and Persian cultural currents it spread widely, entering Turkish as Leyla and the Balkans as Lejla, and into European literature via Byron and others.

In the Anglophone world its profile rose sharply after the 1970 Derek and the Dominos song “Layla,” itself inspired by the medieval tale. Variants include Layla, Leila, Laila, Leyla, Leilah, and Lejla; French often writes Leïla. In Scandinavia, Laila can also have a separate Sámi/Norse origin meaning “holy.” Laylah preserves the Arabic feel while suiting contemporary English orthography.