Lyla

Variant spelling of Lila or Leila, derived from Arabic for night. The spelling lingered quietly in American records from 1884 before surging alongside a broader twenty-first-century appetite for liquid consonants and open vowels. By the twenty-twenties, it was moving up the national charts with considerable momentum.

The name reads squarely as a twenty-first-century school roster regular. Hearing it suggests someone who has never touched a physical phone book and likely never will. It carries the bright, two-syllable cadence of its peer group. The average person bearing it today is barely out of middle school.