Meaning not yet researched.
Leyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,269 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,269 in 2011; #4,828 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,828 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,269.
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Leyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,269 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 83 (2011).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Leyah, making it the 4,828th most common girls’ name of the year, down 963 places from #3,865 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 39 girls named Leyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,269, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #2,870 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 9 babies. In all, 1,261 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 630 babies named Leyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 400 US girls were named Leyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leah (256,954 babies since 1880), Leigh (45,349 babies since 1880), Lea (34,468 babies since 1880) and Leia (18,778 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 Leyah 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 | 28 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,259 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,172 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,675 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,363 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,988 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,750 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,125 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,840 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,274 | — | — |
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).