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Leilah

#1,660 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Leila

Leilah has been given to 4,241 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #1,660 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 251 recorded.

Babies named Leilah, 2025

1 in 26,500

Leilah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leilah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leila

Arabic

What Leilah means

Leilah is a variant of Leila.

Origin, language, and formation

Leilah is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,241 girls were recorded with the name Leilah between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 251 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,002 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,366 in 2020 to #1,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,251 in 2015 to #1,660 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leilah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,500
125 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,660
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,384 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leilah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,384 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leilahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leilah was born before 2013 — so the typical Leilah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,206
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2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (2,013).

Is Leilah 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
+102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−409
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.8%
Peak was 2010 (251)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,002
2010

Spellings of Leilah

Leilah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 28.2% against Leilah's 0.47%.

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 Leilah is used

Across 2016–2025, Leilah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 8,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,762
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,556
  3. 3Arizona1 in 5,882
  4. 4Florida1 in 8,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 9,091
  6. 6Nevada1 in 9,091
  7. 7Colorado1 in 10,000
  8. 8New York1 in 11,111

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.

Leilah around the world

Where Leilah 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • France
    1960–2012
    #5,530
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Leilah

People whose public names include Leilah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leilah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leilah. Linked forms have their own page here.

LailaLaylaLeilaLeylaLáilá

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leilah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 294
Best rank ever
#1,002
2010
Peak year
2010
251 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,241
Count in 2025
125

Names similar to Leilah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LeighaLeishaLeilanyLeianaNailahAkilahSkylahKaylahLeighannLailahLaylahLeiahKailahAnylahShylahLeisaJaylahDalilahLeianiKeilahLeighlaLeidyLeiannaMilah

Names with a curve like Leilah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leilah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaleahAilynPresleeMalakDalilahJazzlynMarlieElleryLilyannaAanyaKamiyaRaylee

Sibling names for Leilah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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