Means "Dark beauty". Eric Clapton wrote and sang a song called 'Layla'. Stunning name.
-- Anonymous User 6/27/2005
Layla actually means "dark night" in Arabic.
-- Anonymous User 9/5/2005
The meaning of the name is NOT, in fact, "night". This is a common mistake, if you inspect the spelling in Arabic you can see they're two different words. The name LAYLA means the light, giddy feeling when one has the first drink of the night, that is, not drunk but on the way to being drunk, the beginning of the intoxication. I hope I have translated it clearly.