🔥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.

# 213 in the US

Lila Rank in US Top 1000

# 113 on Nameberry

Lila Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Lila Popularity

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