Meaning not yet researched.
Leia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,033 in 2025. Its best rank was #211 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #211 in 2023; #297 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#297 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #211.
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Leia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,033 girls in 2025. Peak: #211 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 1,424 (2023).
In 2025, 1,033 US girls were named Leia, making it the 297th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #289 in 2024. That is 66 fewer than the 1,099 girls named Leia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #211, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,424. For comparison, it was #420 in 2015 and #5,726 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leia in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 7 babies. In all, 18,778 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,238 babies named Leia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,194 US girls were named Leia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,424. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,556 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leia ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #50 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Leah (256,954 babies since 1880), Lea (34,468 babies since 1880), Lia (28,516 babies since 1880) and Leya (1,705 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 Leia 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 12 | #50 | #73 |
| California | 242 | #125 | #234 |
| Delaware | 6 | #154 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #200 | — |
| Connecticut | 17 | #201 | — |
| Nevada | 13 | #205 | #505 |
| Florida | 88 | #215 | #343 |
| Arizona | 31 | #222 | #380 |
| Maryland | 18 | #291 | #474 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #294 | #546 |
| Washington | 25 | #295 | #446 |
| Michigan | 30 | #298 | #473 |
| Iowa | 11 | #311 | #390 |
| New York | 54 | #315 | #506 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #326 | #392 |
| Texas | 104 | #328 | #386 |
| Indiana | 21 | #338 | #496 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #345 | #501 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #345 | #488 |
| Colorado | 17 | #363 | #558 |
| Virginia | 22 | #367 | #648 |
| Illinois | 28 | #370 | #339 |
| Kansas | 9 | #389 | #436 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #408 | #639 |
| Alabama | 11 | #463 | #436 |
| Missouri | 13 | #464 | #714 |
| Ohio | 24 | #465 | #646 |
| Utah | 9 | #467 | #669 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #486 | #537 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #499 | #554 |
| Oregon | 7 | #522 | #500 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #543 | #771 |
| Georgia | 20 | #555 | #521 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #632 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #671 | #810 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #788 | #629 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #791 | #601 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,033 | #297 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,099 | #289 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,424 | #211 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,216 | #257 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,078 | #296 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,088 | #296 | — | — |
| 2019 | 958 | #334 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,120 | #296 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,162 | #278 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,016 | #322 | — | — |
| 2015 | 766 | #420 | — | — |
| 2014 | 611 | #510 | — | — |
| 2013 | 509 | #569 | — | — |
| 2012 | 422 | #671 | — | — |
| 2011 | 351 | #775 | — | — |
| 2010 | 323 | #834 | — | — |
| 2009 | 342 | #825 | — | — |
| 2008 | 293 | #930 | — | — |
| 2007 | 288 | #940 | — | — |
| 2006 | 272 | #964 | — | — |
| 2005 | 206 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1983 | 135 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1981 | 126 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1980 | 162 | #923 | — | — |
| 1979 | 118 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1978 | 156 | #911 | — | — |
| 1977 | 98 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,884 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,210 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,726 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,473 | — | — |
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).