Leeloo
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LEE-loo
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Leeloo is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Leeloo mean?
Modern: invented for a film character
Popularised by Leeloo, the heroine of Luc Besson's 1997 science-fiction film The Fifth Element.
Is Leeloo a girl's or a boy's name?
Leeloo is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leeloo in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Leeloo, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
2025 had fewer girls named Leeloo than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Leeloo in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Leeloo in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
Nicknames for Leeloo
- Lee 30 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Leeloo
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lakelynn, Oaklynn, Wrenley, Ailany, Haisley, Kehlani, Lennon, Rynlee, Brynlee, Jovie, Xyla, Lennox
Names related to Leeloo
More Modern names
Jayden, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Mya, Ailani, Kayson, Cataleya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Leeloo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leeloo, updated 20 October 2026.