Arabic is one of the softer, more female-leaning origins in this catalogue, and it has a quirk worth seeing before the list: at the top, one name appears several times over, spelled a different way each time.
One name, four spellings
Layla, Leila, Lyla and Laila are the same name, counted separately because the registers wrote them separately — and Nala sits in among them. The catalogue does not merge them, because a spelling a real owner chose is a fact about how that name is actually used, not a variant to be tidied away.
Soft and female-leaning
33 names carry a recorded Arabic origin, averaging 37 registrations each, and they lean soft-sounding and female more than most origins here. Origin in this catalogue means the language a name derives from, recorded against a cited page — not a claim about the owner or the animal.
What it will not tell you
How to pronounce a name in Arabic, or what it means where nobody sourced the meaning. Those fields stay empty rather than filled in plausibly, which is the same rule every origin page on this site follows.
What are the most popular Arabic pet names?
Layla leads, with Leila, Lyla and Laila close behind — four spellings of one name — and Nala among them. The list above reads the current order live.
How many Arabic pet names are there?
33 carry a recorded Arabic origin, averaging 37 registrations each.
Why are the same names spelled differently?
Because real owners registered them that way, and the catalogue counts spellings separately rather than merging a choice somebody actually made.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Worcester, Victoria BC, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and seven Australian councils. Popularity here is a source-group share score, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. The source list is North American-heavy by record count, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide. Browse the whole catalogue or read how the data is put together.