Leila (name)

Leila (name)

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Leila


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gender = Female
meaning = night
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origin = Hebrew, Arabic
related names = Layla, Laila, Lela
footnotes = Alternative

Leila or Layla is a female given name from the Semitic word for "night" (Hebrew: לילה, Arabic: ليل).

People with this name

*Layla El, WWE wrestler
*Layla Kayleigh, G4 host on the US television program, "Attack of the Show "
*Leila Aboulela, Sudanese writer
*Leila Ahmed, Egyptian-American professor
*Leila Arab, London-based musician
*Leila Barros, Brazilian volleyball player
*Leila Bela, Iranian-American avant-garde musician, actress and writer
*Leila Forouhar, Iranian singer and actress
*Leila Hatami, Iranian actress, star of the 1996 Iranian film "Leila"
*Leila Hayes, Australian actress
*Leila Hyams, an American film actress
*Leila Khaled, Palestinian Militant and senior PFLP member
*Leila Khatami, Iranian mathematician
*Leila McKinnon, Iranian-Australian journalist
*Leila Mourad, Egyptian-Jewish singer and movie star
*Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess
*Leila Sobral, Brazilian basketball player
*Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress and singer
*Leila Vaziri, Iranian-American swimmer, world record holder
*Leila Waddell, mistress of notorious British occultist Aleister Crowley

Fictional characters

* Layla in the classic Middle Eastern love story "Layla and Majnun"
* Layla Serizawa in the Japanese manga series "NANA"
* Layla (Winx Club) in the "Winx Club" animated series
* Layla Song played by Eric Clapton

ee also

*Leila (disambiguation)
*Layla (disambiguation)


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