Leeyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAY-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Leeyah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Leeyah come from?
Hebrew: spelling of Leya; probably a spelling of Leah or Leia
Meaning borrowed from Leya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Leeyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Leeyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leeyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Leeyah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more girls named Leeyah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Leeyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,399 girls in the US were given Leeyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #249, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Leeyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,885 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,261 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Leeyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Salem, Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Safa, Taliyah, Zainab, Selah, Jaliyah, Sariyah, Raya
Other spellings of Leeyah
Names related to Leeyah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Leeyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leeyah, updated 20 October 2026.