Leyah
Leyah was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,827 among girls’ names; 1,261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Leyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leyah?
#4,827 among girls’ names, 2025
Leyah fell from #2,870 in 2015 to #4,827 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 17.4 per million.
83 babies in 2011, the peak
Leyah peaked in 2011, when 83 girls were given it, #2,269 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,827 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,865 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,816 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,257 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,976 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,429 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,966 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,468 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,040 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,122 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,870 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,633 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,396 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,532 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,269 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,328 | 46.1 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,113 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,142 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,827 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,417 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,344 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,783 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,074 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,007 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,166 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,668 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,357 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,981 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,745 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,120 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,835 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,268 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leyah, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,261 Americans ever recorded as Leyah. The median Leyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 895 people named Leyah (890 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 600 |
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 Leyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,146 | 1.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,953 | 0.7× |
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 Leyah 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 371,526 babies since 1880, Leyah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 5,951 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 Leyah
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 Leyah and names like it
- Compare Leyah and LeahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeyah peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Leyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.