Leeah
Leeah was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,640 among girls’ names; 1,333 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Leeah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leeah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leeah?
#8,640 among girls’ names, 2025
Leeah fell from #3,196 in 2015 to #8,640 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 7.5 per million.
84 babies in 2012, the peak
Leeah peaked in 2012, when 84 girls were given it, #2,254 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,640 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,804 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,299 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,358 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,552 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,107 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,224 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,625 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,116 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,260 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,196 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,255 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,619 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,254 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,499 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,683 | 37.7 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,716 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,194 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,687 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,598 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,686 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,301 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,363 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,229 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,830 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,347 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,524 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,957 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,130 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,389 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,124 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,178 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,285 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,804 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,838 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,179 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,671 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,491 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,162 | 6.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,983 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,125 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,703 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,754 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,805 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,804 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,614 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,657 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,501 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leeah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leeah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leeah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leeah, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,333 Americans ever recorded as Leeah. The median Leeah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,063 people named Leeah (1,058 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 175 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 695 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 424 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Leeah born?
The states with the most babies named Leeah are California, Texas and New York, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leeah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 365,579 babies since 1880, Leeah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,632 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leeah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leeah and names like it
- Compare Leeah and LeahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeeah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leeah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Leeah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leeah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.