Leiyah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leiyah has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Leiyah, 2023
1 in 474,000
Leiyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leiyah?
Leiyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leiyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leiyah was born before 2013 — so the typical Leiyah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 273
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.9% of all recorded uses (158).
Is Leiyah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2011 (29)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.1% average annual change
Spellings of Leiyah
Leiyah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 44.0% against Leiyah's 0.05%.
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 Leiyah is used
Across 1910–2025, Leiyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,337,635 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 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. Leiyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leiyah around the world
Where Leiyah 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 & Wales2004–2009#4,564in 2009
- France2015–2025#4,269in 2025
- Canada2024–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Leiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.