Leela — #1252 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Leela

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,369 babies named Leela between 1898 and 2024, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leela currently holds the #1252 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 232 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leela performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,033 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Leela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 623 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Leela in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leela 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 4,369 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.