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Do you know someone named Layla?


I know a video game character and a song named Layla, but that's it....

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My niece named her daughter Layla (born in 2010).

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Nope never met anyone with that name. I was curious to the back story of the song though and this explains why.

The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Arabia and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi,[1] a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful young girl, went crazy and so could not marry her.[2][3][4] The song was further inspired by Clapton's then-unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison of the Beatles. Clapton and Boyd would eventually marry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla

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This is the only Layla I know and the only Layla I ever want to know:

https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Layla_El/Image_gallery

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We had a shih tzu puppy named Layla, named after the song.

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I have a niece named Laila.

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"Laila" actually was a relatively popular girl's name here in Sweden back in the 1930s and 1940s.
It is either Sami or Finnish.
My mum even had a cousin named Laila, and we also had a neighbor named Laila.

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I know a woman named Leyla.

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