Leah

What Leah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Leah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #36 in 2015 to #58 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Leah?

US: Falling: down from #36 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #98 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2009, when 6,790 girls got the name (#29 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 414 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 928 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 542 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (7.98 per 1,000 girls), NY (7.02 per 1,000 girls), NJ (6.87 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Leah is #58 in the US and #183 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Leah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lia1,526 US · 93 E&W
• Leia1,033 US · 95 E&W
• Lea321 US · 63 E&W
• Liah169 US · 6 E&W
• Lua90 US · 20 E&W
• Leiah33 US
• Leo23 US · 4 E&W
• Leea0 US · 12 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Leah

Girls

• Danna#394“of Anna”^*
• Elise#223Editor’s note Down from #174 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*

For a brother

• Eli#104“ascent”^*
• Abram#742“father + high, exalted”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Jeremiah#88“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Uriah#648“God is my light”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Leah’s. Rank is US 2025.