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Layla

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 6 · observations: 16

Candidate data 1.0.0. Unknown values have not been filled with guesses.

Language information

Dictionary information and other contexts are kept separate. A statistical territory does not establish the language of a name; a classification does not determine a person's gender.

Dictionary contexts

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
English	Female	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: English. Source category: Female. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "attribution_id": "attr:e9a1d4e1-e368-5842-8584-4c90b2a824e6", "basis": "usage_evidence", "context_id": "ctx:88fdb9c7-a7ea-56f2-bc44-8bd0c9d551e4", "country": null, "definition_qualifications": [], "evidence_id": "ev:3549fc33-e8fd-5f5f-b7a2-75a5fbd2628f", "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "gender": "female", "language": "en", "language_claim_scope": "dictionary_section", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "release_ready": false, "rights_status": "cleared_for_exported_claim", "text": "Layla", "value_basis": "source_reported" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Language

Gender in source

Basis

Evidence

English

Female

Usage evidence

Evidence

Language: English. Source category: Female. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person.

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

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    "context_id": "ctx:88fdb9c7-a7ea-56f2-bc44-8bd0c9d551e4",
    "country": null,
    "definition_qualifications": [],
    "evidence_id": "ev:3549fc33-e8fd-5f5f-b7a2-75a5fbd2628f",
    "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9",
    "gender": "female",
    "language": "en",
    "language_claim_scope": "dictionary_section",
    "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
    "release_ready": false,
    "rights_status": "cleared_for_exported_claim",
    "text": "Layla",
    "value_basis": "source_reported"
}

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Other contexts

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
Not specified	Female	Source classification	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Female. Basis: Source classification. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "source_classification", "context_id": "ctx:5231a698-9b2a-5e79-a4f2-709dfbd8127e", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:6e190f63-710f-5a1e-ac24-91d086cf3c11", "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "gender": "female", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Dutch	Not specified	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: Dutch. Source category: Not specified. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "usage_evidence", "context_id": "ctx:5aaa95d5-d197-59d4-a5c4-2fe64a737b17", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:a3a2d71e-beb1-5502-9ad7-5be4298e1c54", "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "gender": "unknown", "language": "nl" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Female	Birth statistics	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Female. Basis: Birth statistics. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "official_birth_statistics", "context_id": "ctx:b72ad797-634b-5172-9420-a9bcd26d48f6", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:ffb048c3-aec5-5515-8b29-d7d3f22b653a", "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "gender": "female", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Related spellings

Every relationship has a direction and type. Source-reported equivalence does not imply universal interchangeability.

Relationships: 6

From	To	Type	Evidence
Layla	Leyla	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:18142282-1634-5ddb-89fb-e2786d298d9b", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:cc7d9957-61ac-5ed4-859c-8a6c2d6b27cb", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:93b954b1-3c23-54bc-8231-510bafc30ac2" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Layla	Leila	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:fc6862d9-4679-50a6-8573-95ca81dc40c2", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:38762b66-1a92-55c8-b845-62ad42a51012", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:a164bc52-02a6-5aa3-a1a7-1654f5cdd437" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Layla	Laila	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:febf4f3b-f8b0-5346-914c-92901069265e", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:1192b345-5f74-5705-8a00-bdb7e8f04ef7", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:ee1f3e12-bf3a-5843-9365-4ce496a0dd81" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Layla	Leilah	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:3b031421-6a3f-51d2-93ff-18c0961f3fc7", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:da615145-5e0c-5c30-9b39-f21186470450", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:63cf0bd4-f256-5499-aaf6-8f90b8455d13" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Layla	Leelah	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:743d75d8-7c8b-5b50-b0a1-f89abc3dd54a", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:23c04da0-4427-5538-b30b-cae6cb4b6271", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:610ebd0f-4bed-53d7-a4ce-2e70a50221b7" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Layla	Leïlah	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:f13eaecf-478e-5cda-98e6-aea02a722732", "from_form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:b93dc5e5-38ee-5106-ab98-3703d556a864", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:a25e093e-19b6-5330-8047-c30d8973da14" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Usage in statistics

Series differ in coverage and counting units. Values cannot be added together to measure global popularity.

SeriesObservations shown: 16

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Female	Not available	5338
Germany	2023	Female	Not available	14
England and Wales	2025	Female	Not available	833
Cologne	2022	Female	1	2
Cologne	2022	Female	2	1
Cologne	2010	Female	Not available	2
Cologne	2011	Female	Not available	5
Cologne	2012	Female	Not available	6
Cologne	2013	Female	Not available	6
Cologne	2015	Female	Not available	4
Cologne	2016	Female	Not available	2
Cologne	2017	Female	Not available	2
Cologne	2018	Female	Not available	4
Cologne	2020	Female	1	3
Cologne	2020	Female	2	2
Cologne	2021	Female	1	5

An unspecified position is not treated as first position. Full counting units, methods and qualifications are preserved in the original data.

Observation technical details

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Source classification

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Usage context: Dutch · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2022 · Female · count: 2 · name position: 1

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Dictionary context: English · Female · Usage evidence

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Provenance of the record «Layla»

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Relationship «Layla → Leyla»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Layla → Leila»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Layla → Laila»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Layla → Leilah»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Layla → Leelah»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Layla → Leïlah»: Source-reported equivalence

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Statistics: Cologne · 2022 · Female · count: 1 · name position: 2

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Statistics: Cologne · 2010 · Female · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2011 · Female · count: 5 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2012 · Female · count: 6 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2013 · Female · count: 6 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2015 · Female · count: 4 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2016 · Female · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2017 · Female · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2018 · Female · count: 4 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2020 · Female · count: 3 · name position: 1

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Statistics: Cologne · 2020 · Female · count: 2 · name position: 2

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Statistics: Cologne · 2021 · Female · count: 5 · name position: 1

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            "evidence_id": "ev:8be0e738-7e70-50cb-be15-6913f7a91b34",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:4075b909-65b3-5fd2-8508-0626537ff2b9",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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