Laila ranks at #764 with 154 entries, registered female. The name is the Arabic-origin reading meaning "night," and on a pet registry it functions as the warm Arabic-Hebrew crossover pick that carries cleanly across multiple language households without feeling tied to any single one.
The dark-coat naming logic
A meaningful share of registry Lailas are dark-coated dogs — black Labradors, black Poodles, dark mixed breeds, and the occasional black cat. The naming carries the "night" meaning quietly: most owners know the etymology but did not pick the name solely for the meaning. The visual coat-match is a happy alignment rather than the driving logic.
The Layla-fork register
Laila and Layla sit on parallel paths in pet naming. Layla skews more toward the Eric Clapton song reference and tends toward warmer, lighter-coated dogs; Laila skews toward the Arabic-Hebrew family-language register and tends toward households where the human side of the family carries the same name across generations. The fork is real and shows up in shelter intake patterns.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (LAY-luh), with bright vowels and a clean trailing soft consonant. The shape recalls beautifully outdoors, and the name passes the dog-park test — clearly distinguishable from Bella, Layla-the-other-spelling, and Lily even at distance. The human Laila page shows steady modern American SSA growth; pet Laila tracks alongside without crowding, and the name lands without strong breed concentration.