Meaning not yet researched.
Leya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,166 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Leya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,166 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Leya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,166 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 86 (2025).
In 2025, 86 US girls were named Leya, making it the 2,166th most common girls’ name of the year, up 172 places from #2,338 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 79 girls named Leya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,166, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #3,047 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leya in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 9 babies. In all, 1,705 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 511 babies named Leya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 686 US girls were named Leya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leya ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #714 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leah (256,954 babies since 1880), Lea (34,468 babies since 1880), Leia (18,778 babies since 1880) and Liya (2,375 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Leya 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 11 | #714 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,321 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,629 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,758 | #2,126 |
| California | 12 | #1,805 | #1,994 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,540 | #3,584 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,258 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,080 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,929 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,824 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,839 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,247 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,259 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,886 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,021 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,695 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,630 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,672 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,565 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,713 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,274 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,019 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,733 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,022 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,826 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,744 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,984 | — | — |
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).