Leelah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LEE-lah
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Leelah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
Where does Leelah come from?
Spelling of Leela or Leila, names with Sanskrit and Arabic sources
Is Leelah a girl's or a boy's name?
Leelah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leelah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 8 girls.
Leelah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 1 | #5,280 |
How popular is Leelah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,115among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Leelah, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Leelah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 158 girls in the US were given Leelah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,241, up from #6,115 for this spelling alone.
Leelah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,245 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Leelah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Nusaybah Ayah Zainab Aaliyah Hafsa Ayra Izzah Hiba Ruqayyah Sumayyah Aaminah
Other spellings of Leelah
Names related to Leelah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Leelah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leelah, updated 20 October 2026.