🔥Lila

LY-la or LEE-la

Arabic, Sanskrit

"night; play"

Lila Origin and Meaning

The name Lila is a girl's name of Arabic, Hindi, Persian origin meaning "night; play".

Lila is one of the girl names with a double l sound — Lila, Lola, Layla, Leila, Lily et al — that have caught on in a major way., Delicate yet dynamic, Lila has a slightly international flair.

The one caveat, and you may consider it a big: As a group, the La-La names have gotten so stylish so quickly that they're verging on full-blown trendiness and tend to blend into one another. So while there may not be another little girl named Lila in town, between those named Lillian, Lily, Layla, and so on, you may feel there's a double L overload.

Lila was derived from the Arabic word laylah, meaning "night." It has separate roots in Sanskrit with the meaning "play." In Hinduism, Lila is a conceptualism of the universe as a playground of the gods. Lilah and Lyla are variant spellings.

Lila has been a recent hot TV character name, seen on such shows asDamages and Dexter, as well as Friday Night Lights, where the name is spelled Lyla—another trendy version.

Trivia tidbit: Diane Sawyer was born Lila Diane.

Lila Rank in US Top 1000

# 213 in the US

Lila Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 113 on Nameberry

Lila Popularity

• 213 US 2023
• 113 Nameberry 2024
• 208 Future 2028
• 237 England 2021
• 75 France 2023
• 97 Poland 2023

20 Names Similar to Lila

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Famous People Named Lila

• (Ana) Lila Downs (Sánchez) Mexican,American singer,songwriter
• Lila Karp American feminist novelist
• Elizaveta Nikolayevna "Lila" Kedrova Russian,French actress
• Lila Lee (born Augusta Appel) American actress
• Lila Elaine McCann American country music singer
• (Lila) Diane Sawyer American news reporter
• Lila Prap pen name of Lilijana Praprotnik Zupančič, Slovene children's author and illustrator
• Lila Amen American reality TV personality ("All American Muslim")
• Lila Parks (b. 2001) daughter of musicians Louise Post of Veruca Salt and Tony Parks
• Lila Grace Moss Hack (b. 2002), daughter of model Kate Moss
• Lila Geary (b. 2006) daughter of actors Laura Fraser and Karl Geary
• Lila Tracey Cassidy (b. 2008) daughter of actor Shaun Cassidy
• Lila Addison Jones (b. 2009) quintuplet daughter of Casey and Ethan Jones of TV's "Quints By Surprise"
• Lila Hagman (b. 2009) daughter of ice hockey player Niklas Hagman and model Piritta Hannula
• Lila Bennington (b. 2011) daughter of singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park and model Talinda Bennington; twin of sister Lily
• Lila Lovejoy (b. 2013) daughter of ice hockey player Ben Lovejoy
• Lila Elodie Scott, daughter of singers Mike Scott of The Waterboys and Camille O'Sullivan
• Lila Skye Kalis daughter of American skateboarder Josh Kalis

Lila in Pop Culture

• Delilah 'Lila' Bard character from V.E. Schwab's "A Darker Shade of Magic"
• Lila character on TV's 'Deadwood'
• Lila West character on TV's 'Dexter'
• Lila Dahl (Ames) character in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead trilogy
• Lila Zacharov character in The Curse Workers trilogy by Holly Black
• Lila Morgan character on TV's "Angel"
• Lila Wate character in the Beautiful Creatures series
• Lila Markus Grace's daughter on TV's "Will and Grace"
• Lila "Fantasia" Walker character in movie "One False Move"
• Lila Robinson character on TV's "Pushing Daisies"
• Lila Pilgrim character on TV's "Endeavour"
• Lila Sawyer character in animated series "Hey Arnold"
• Lila Maria Sucre daughter of Sucre on TV's "Prison Break"
• Lila Mayfield main character in comic strip "The Meaning of Lila" by John Forgetta
• Lila Stanguard character from How to Get Away with Murder
• Rafaella "Lila" Cerullo character in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels
• Lila Rossi character in the TV show 'Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir'
• Lila Fowler character in Sweet Valley High book series by Francine Pascalki
• Lila Norcross main character in the novel "Sleeping Beauties" by Stephen and Owen King
• Lila Dixon character in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn"
• Lila unicorn character in 2003 animated movie, "Barbie of Swan Lake"
• Lila minor character in the Peanuts