Leiah
#4,308 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leiah has been given to 1,438 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #4,308 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Leiah, 2025
1 in 100,000
Leiah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Leiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 100,000
- 33 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 48,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,308
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 69,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leiah was born before 2012 — so the typical Leiah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,438
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (590).
Is Leiah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −759
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −992
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,070
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.65×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.3%
- Peak was 2012 (78)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Leiah
Leiah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 28.9% against Leiah's 0.16%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Leiah is used
Across 1910–2025, Leiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 126,471 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leiah around the world
Where Leiah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2020#5,493in 2020
- Scotland2011–2011#810in 2011
- France2022–2023#4,289in 2023
- Canada2008–2015#2,823in 2015
- South Australia1999–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Leiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.