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Leah

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~234,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#58 among girls
Births in 2025
3,880 256,954 since 1880
Typical age
23 years, median

Leah popularity over time

Leah rank by birth year, 1880–2025Leah ranked #208 in 1880 and #58 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #24, in 2010.#100#58best #24 in 201018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2009: 6,799 births recorded as Leah. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. Across the record, 42 years put Leah in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #58, on 3,880 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 31%.

Babies named Leah per yearPeaks at 6,799 births in 2009.6,799 in 2009018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Leah?

An estimated 234,700 living Americans are called Leah. That is out of 256,954 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Leah?

Median age among living Leahs: 23. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Leah a millennial-era name.

Your Leah

Ages of living people named LeahHalf of living Leahs are older than 23 and half younger.median 23020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Leah is most common

New Jersey uses the name 2.5× as often as the country as a whole. New York, Rhode Island and Delaware follow.

Where Leah is used more than average5 states use the name Leah more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.5× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.5× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 1.6× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 1.6× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 1.6× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Leah is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Jersey 2,551 2.5×
New York 5,673 2.5×
Rhode Island 129 1.6×
Delaware 118 1.6×
District of Columbia 131 1.6×

Leah in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Leah ranked #183 in 2025 on 273 births. That is 23% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Leah comes from

From Hebrew לֵאָה.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Leah

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Leah Goldberg Israeli poet 1911–1970 33
Leah Remini American actress 1970 32
Leah Williamson English footballer 1997 32
Leah Pipes American actress 1983 27
Leah Lewis American actress 1996 25
Leah Dizon American singer and model 1986 21
Leah Namugerwa Ugandan environmental activist 2004 21
Leah Isadora Behn second child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn 2005 20
Photo credits (6)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Leah

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Leah was in 2025.

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