Lila (given name)

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Lila (Arabic: ليلى) can be a variant of the Arabic and Hebrew words for "night". Other versions are Lyla (most common in Arabic) and Lilah. As a name it means night, beauty, or dark beauty.

Lila is a common Indian female given name meaning "beauty".

Lilavati is a variant of this name that is also the title of a twelfth-century mathematics treatise.

Lila is also a female given name meaning purple in German.

The angel Lailah or Laylah (Heb. לַיְלָה) is an angel in some interpretations in the Talmud and in some later Jewish mythology.

People with the given name Lila[]

  • Lila Downs (born 1968), Mexican singer
  • Lila Fenwick (1932–2020), American lawyer, human rights advocate, and United Nations official
  • Lila Karp (1933–2008), American writer and activist
  • Lila Kedrova (1909-2000), French actress
  • Lila Lamgade (born 1991), Nepalese footballer
  • Lila Lee (1905–1973), American actress
  • Lila Majumdar (1908–2007), Bengali writer, also referred to as Leela Majumdar
  • Lila McCann (born 1981), American country music singer
  • Lila Rose (born 1988), American pro-life activist
  • Lila Diane Sawyer (born 1945), news anchor
  • Lila Tretikov (born 1978), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation 2014–2016
  • Leela Naidu (1940–2009), an Indian actress, also referred to as Lila

Fictional people[]

  • Lila (Xena), a recurring character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
  • Lila Fowler, a character in the book series Sweet Valley High
  • Lila West, alias Lila Tournay, a character in the TV serial Dexter (season 2)
  • Lila Black, the main heroine of Quantum Gravity novel series by Justina Robson
  • Lila Sawyer, a character from the animated television series Hey Arnold
  • Lila Test, a character from the animated television series Johnny Test
  • Lila Quartermaine, a character on the daytime television series General Hospital
  • Lila Bard, from a Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
  • Lila Rossi, a character in the animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
  • Lila, a minor character in the Peanuts comic strip and second Peanuts movie, Snoopy Come Home
  • Lila, a character in the PBS Kids animated series Pinkalicious & Peterrific

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