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Leili

#16,277 in 2025Girls' name

Vapour or soul

Leili has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #16,277 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Leili, 2025

1 in 663,000

Leili over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leili: meaning, origin, and history

Vapour or soul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leili means

Leili means “vapour or soul”, associated with leil.

Origin, language, and formation

Leili is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 girls were recorded with the name Leili between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2020; its best national rank was #9,268 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,268 in 2020 to #16,277 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 Leili?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,277
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leili 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leili. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leilis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leili was born before 2010 — so the typical Leili is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Leili 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,009
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2020 (11)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,268
2020

Spellings of Leili

Leili is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 22.3% against Leili's 0.01%.

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.

Leili around the world

Where Leili 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.

  • France
    2006–2023
    #6,534
    in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leili by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,277
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,009
Best rank ever
#9,268
2020
Peak year
2020
11 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Leili

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

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Sibling names for Leili

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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