Leah — #53 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Leah

The Social Security Administration has registered 252,567 babies named Leah between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leah currently holds the #53 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 6,790 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 56,030 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Leah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 25,033 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Leah in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 252,567 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.