Lila (given name)

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 variant of the female given name Leila, derived from the Semitic word for "night".

People with the given name Lila

• Lila Diane Sawyer, news anchor
• Lila Downs, Mexican singer
• Lila Karp, American writer and activist
• Lila Kedrova, French actress
• Lila Lee, American actress
• Lila McCann, American country music singer
• Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation since May 2014
• Leela Naidu, an Indian actress, also referred to as Lila

Fictional people

• Lila Allcroft, a minor character in the cartoon strip Peanuts
• 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

See also

• Lila (disambiguation)
• Lilla
• Leila (name)
• Leela
• Leelavathi