Meaning not yet researched.
Lelia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #164 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #164 in 1882; #6,710 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lelia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,710 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #164.
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Lelia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #164 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 316 (1919).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Lelia, making it the 6,710th most common girls’ name of the year, down 990 places from #5,720 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 22 girls named Lelia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #164, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 316, in 1919. For comparison, it was #3,893 in 2015 and #829 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lelia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 65 babies with the name. In all, 15,645 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,688 babies named Lelia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 299 US girls were named Lelia; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elia (10,159 babies since 1880), Lilia (14,319 babies since 1880), Lili (3,862 babies since 1880) and Lillia (2,633 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lylia, Lalia and Liliah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lylia (425), Lalia (351), Liliah (223), Leyli (149), Leolia (93), Lyliah (68), Leilia (33), Lealia (11), Lelea (5).
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 Lelia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,710 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,325 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,392 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,389 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,702 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,186 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1963 | 75 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1961 | 93 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1960 | 104 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1959 | 93 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1958 | 96 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1957 | 116 | #961 | — | — |
| 1956 | 96 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1955 | 124 | #874 | — | — |
| 1954 | 118 | #884 | — | — |
| 1953 | 124 | #832 | — | — |
| 1952 | 112 | #873 | — | — |
| 1951 | 127 | #791 | — | — |
| 1950 | 111 | #829 | — | — |
| 1949 | 156 | #666 | — | — |
| 1948 | 139 | #711 | — | — |
| 1947 | 139 | #723 | — | — |
| 1946 | 145 | #661 | — | — |
| 1945 | 123 | #666 | — | — |
| 1944 | 134 | #634 | — | — |
| 1943 | 147 | #626 | — | — |
| 1942 | 134 | #645 | — | — |
| 1941 | 170 | #543 | — | — |
| 1940 | 152 | #563 | — | — |
| 1939 | 154 | #535 | — | — |
| 1938 | 160 | #539 | — | — |
| 1937 | 149 | #549 | — | — |
| 1936 | 146 | #540 | — | — |
| 1935 | 169 | #485 | — | — |
| 1934 | 159 | #510 | — | — |
| 1933 | 170 | #487 | — | — |
| 1932 | 193 | #476 | — | — |
| 1931 | 175 | #488 | — | — |
| 1930 | 199 | #475 | — | — |
| 1929 | 188 | #491 | — | — |
| 1928 | 241 | #436 | — | — |
| 1927 | 241 | #446 | — | — |
| 1926 | 272 | #412 | — | — |
| 1925 | 295 | #397 | — | — |
| 1924 | 304 | #393 | — | — |
| 1923 | 287 | #394 | — | — |
| 1922 | 295 | #380 | — | — |
| 1921 | 289 | #399 | — | — |
| 1920 | 276 | #397 | — | — |
| 1919 | 316 | #359 | — | — |
| 1918 | 308 | #372 | — | — |
| 1917 | 273 | #383 | — | — |
| 1916 | 265 | #387 | — | — |
| 1915 | 272 | #363 | — | — |
| 1914 | 226 | #352 | — | — |
| 1913 | 165 | #376 | — | — |
| 1912 | 186 | #333 | — | — |
| 1911 | 159 | #314 | — | — |
| 1910 | 138 | #333 | — | — |
| 1909 | 142 | #304 | — | — |
| 1908 | 141 | #298 | — | — |
| 1907 | 141 | #295 | — | — |
| 1906 | 124 | #300 | — | — |
| 1905 | 139 | #281 | — | — |
| 1904 | 156 | #251 | — | — |
| 1903 | 149 | #247 | — | — |
| 1902 | 140 | #265 | — | — |
| 1901 | 138 | #245 | — | — |
| 1900 | 206 | #216 | — | — |
| 1899 | 148 | #226 | — | — |
| 1898 | 149 | #241 | — | — |
| 1897 | 152 | #222 | — | — |
| 1896 | 153 | #222 | — | — |
| 1895 | 157 | #218 | — | — |
| 1894 | 146 | #220 | — | — |
| 1893 | 133 | #228 | — | — |
| 1892 | 171 | #193 | — | — |
| 1891 | 141 | #191 | — | — |
| 1890 | 137 | #203 | — | — |
| 1889 | 131 | #202 | — | — |
| 1888 | 128 | #199 | — | — |
| 1887 | 102 | #202 | — | — |
| 1886 | 102 | #196 | — | — |
| 1885 | 104 | #184 | — | — |
| 1884 | 102 | #177 | — | — |
| 1883 | 84 | #181 | — | — |
| 1882 | 95 | #164 | — | — |
| 1881 | 74 | #176 | — | — |
| 1880 | 65 | #188 | — | — |
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).