Lila (given name)

Lila is a variant of the Hebrew and Arabic word for "night". Other versions are Lyla and Lilah. As a name it means night, beauty, or dark beauty.

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

Lila is also known as "Fire" and "strength".

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 Diane Sawyer (born 1945), news anchor
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 Tretikov (born 1978), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation 2014–2016
Leela Naidu (1940–2009), an Indian actress, also referred to as Lila

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, a minor character in the Peanuts comic strip and second Peanuts movie, Snoopy Come Home