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Lelia

#6,709 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Laelia

Lelia has been given to 15,645 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,709 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 316 recorded.

Babies named Lelia, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lelia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Laelia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lelia means

Lelia is a form of Laelia.

Origin, language, and formation

Lelia is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laelia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,645 girls were recorded with the name Lelia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 316 in 1919; its best national rank was #164 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,881 in 2020 to #6,709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,892 in 2015 to #6,709 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 Lelia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,709
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lelia 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lelia was born before 1925 — so the typical Lelia is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,586
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1920s — 17.2% of all recorded uses (2,688).

Is Lelia 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
−992
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,828
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,817
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.4%
Peak was 1919 (316)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#164
1882

Spellings of Lelia

Lelia is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 11.9% against Lelia's 0.39%.

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 Lelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lelia was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 16,871 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

034 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 2,941
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 4,762
  3. 3Alabama1 in 5,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 5,556
  5. 5Georgia1 in 6,250
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 6,667
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 6,667
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 7,143

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. Lelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lelia around the world

Where Lelia 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
    2007–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1965–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1902–2025
    #1,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1968–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lelia

People whose public names include Lelia, 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.

Lelia in other languages

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

EliaLaliaÉliaLaélia

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

Lelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,828
Best rank ever
#164
1882
Peak year
1919
316 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,645
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Lelia

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

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Names with a curve like Lelia

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

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Sibling names for Lelia

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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