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Lelaina

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lelaina has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1994, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Lelaina, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lelaina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lelaina means

Lelaina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lelaina is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 136 girls were recorded with the name Lelaina between 1994 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1994; its best national rank was #7,913 in 1994.

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 Lelaina?

Lelaina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lelaina 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lelaina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lelainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lelaina was born before 2005 — so the typical Lelaina is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Lelaina 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 1994 (11)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,913
1994

Spellings of Lelaina

Lelaina is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 50.7% against Lelaina's 0.03%.

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.

Lelaina around the world

Where Lelaina 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
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lelaina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,913
1994
Peak year
1994
11 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
136
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lelaina

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

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Sibling names for Lelaina

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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