Leia

What Leia means

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

Editor’s note Up from #420 in 2015 to #297 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Leia?

US: Rising: up from #420 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #467 in 2015, #426 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 1,424 girls got the name (#211 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 1,556 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,666 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 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 HI (5.59 per 1,000 girls), DE (2.66 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.71 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Leia is #297 in the US and #426 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 Leia 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

• Leah3,880 US · 273 E&W
• Lia1,526 US · 93 E&W
• Lea321 US · 63 E&W
• Liah169 US · 6 E&W
• Lua90 US · 20 E&W
• Laia85 US · 5 E&W
• Leiah33 US
• Leo23 US · 4 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 Leia

Girls

• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Athena#109Editor’s note Up from #157 in 2015 to #109 in 2025 in the US
• Zara#212“flower”^*

For a brother

• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Leia’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.