Leila

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Arabic ليلى (leila) = 'night' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Persian leila = 'night' ^[4]

3) Arabic leila = 'wine, smell of wine, sugaring of wine' ^[2]

4) In the Nordic countries Leila is often mixed up with Laila

Related Names

Leila	♀
Leilah	♀
Lejla	♀
Leyla	♀

Name Days

Finland

5 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 March

Sweden

28 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1834 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		2314	3103	0	0
Denmark[6]		799	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		217	344	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	15263	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi