Meaning not yet researched.
Leela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,088 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,088 in 2013; #1,282 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,282 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,088.
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Leela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,088 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 232 (2016).
In 2025, 175 US girls were named Leela, making it the 1,282nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 20 places from #1,262 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 185 girls named Leela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,088, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 232, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,207 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leela in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 4,545 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,034 babies named Leela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,928 US girls were named Leela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 232. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,184 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leela ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #811 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Lyla (49,299 babies since 1880) and Lela (43,073 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 9 | #811 | #902 |
| Colorado | 6 | #857 | #976 |
| California | 32 | #899 | #1,191 |
| Michigan | 8 | #916 | #1,207 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #930 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #972 | #1,378 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,163 | #890 |
| New York | 12 | #1,204 | #698 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,384 | #2,136 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,386 | #1,583 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,684 | #1,258 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 2022 | 179 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2021 | 179 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2020 | 194 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 2018 | 196 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 2017 | 217 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2016 | 232 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 2015 | 207 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 2014 | 218 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2013 | 227 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2012 | 209 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2010 | 135 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,157 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,942 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,834 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,553 | — | — |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,435 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,765 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,873 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,754 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,076 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,753 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,850 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,602 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,076 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,712 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,322 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,554 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,733 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,340 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,423 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,581 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,018 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,039 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,763 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,832 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).