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Leiyah

Gender
Girl
Say it
LAY-a
Origin
Modern

Leiyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Leiyah come from?

Modern: spelling of Leiya, itself a variant of Leia, perhaps also of Leah

Meaning borrowed from Leiya.

Is Leiyah a girl's or a boy's name?

Leiyah is a girls' name.

How popular is Leiyah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Leiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 29 in 20112023
Leiyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20237#12,192
20228#11,225
20218#11,141
202017#6,625
201913#8,134
201810#9,801
20176#14,120
201616#7,227
201518#6,719
201419#6,449
201315#7,744
201218#6,868
201129#4,806
201014#8,267
200928#5,096
20089#11,594
200710#10,814
20067#13,601
20059#10,915
20045#16,092
20030–
20020–
20017#12,049

Names like Leiyah

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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, “Leiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leiyah, updated 20 October 2026.