Leilah
#1,652 for girls in 2025, 125 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 251 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,241since 1898
Leilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Leilah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,652 | 125 |
| 2024 | #1,753 | 115 |
| 2023 | #1,421 | 157 |
| 2022 | #1,239 | 194 |
| 2021 | #1,364 | 162 |
| 2020 | #1,362 | 160 |
| 2019 | #1,349 | 168 |
| 2018 | #1,199 | 198 |
| 2017 | #1,190 | 205 |
| 2016 | #1,345 | 176 |
| 2015 | #1,247 | 196 |
| 2014 | #1,164 | 211 |
| 2013 | #1,178 | 204 |
| 2012 | #1,269 | 189 |
| 2011 | #1,138 | 215 |
| 2010 | #1,000 | 251 |
| 2009 | #1,163 | 216 |
| 2008 | #1,299 | 191 |
| 2007 | #1,459 | 160 |
| 2006 | #1,682 | 125 |
| 2005 | #1,933 | 99 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 |
| 2003 | #2,001 | 90 |
| 2002 | #2,819 | 53 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
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| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
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| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leilah! It came in at #1,502, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1899–1915, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Leilah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#759 · 1 in 3,689
- California#767 · 1 in 4,155
- Arizona#818 · 1 in 3,962
- Texas#1,001 · 1 in 5,553
- Indiana#1,054 · 1 in 5,677
Best ever in a state: #306 in Nevada, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #759 | 6 | 1 in 3,689 |
| California | #767 | 42 | 1 in 4,155 |
| Arizona | #818 | 7 | 1 in 3,962 |
| Texas | #1,001 | 28 | 1 in 5,553 |
| Indiana | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Georgia | #1,175 | 7 | 1 in 6,469 |
| Illinois | #1,187 | 7 | 1 in 6,914 |
| Florida | #1,463 | 8 | 1 in 10,450 |
| New York | #1,675 | 7 | 1 in 11,607 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Leilah
- 101 spots since 2024 (#1,753 → #1,652)
- 290 spots since 2020 (#1,362 → #1,652)
- 405 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #1,652)
- Biggest jump: 163 spots in 2010 (#1,163 → #1,000)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 2011 (#1,000 → #1,138)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 2010 at #1,000 (251 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2010
- Highest: 1 in 7,082 girls born in 2010 were named Leilah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,858 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.5% of all girls named Leilah (2,013) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,502 (1898) | #1,502 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 12 | #3,919 (1916) | #4,105 |
| 1920s | 12 | #4,195 (1928) | #4,297 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 (1948) | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 30 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,178 |
| 1980s | 61 | #6,156 (1986) | #7,634 |
| 1990s | 98 | #6,191 (1999) | #8,053 |
| 2000s | 1,091 | #1,163 (2009) | #2,174 |
| 2010s | 2,013 | #1,000 (2010) | #1,208 |
| 2020s | 913 | #1,239 (2022) | #1,465 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leilah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 10,129 of them was named Leilah, which outranked 92.3% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,354Renesmee163
- #1,354Samiyah163
- #1,354Valencia163
- #1,364Leilah162
- #1,364Bryleigh162
- #1,364Juana162
- #1,364Kenya162
- #1,370Asha161
- #1,370Kailany161
- #1,370Kasey161
Tied with 5 names at #1,364; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.