Leela
- #1,279 for girls in 2025, 175 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 227 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,545since 1898
Leela over time
Rank among girls' names. Leela has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 girls in 1898, 5 girls in 1918, 5 girls in 1920 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,279 | 175 |
| 2024 | #1,259 | 185 |
| 2023 | #1,277 | 179 |
| 2022 | #1,319 | 179 |
| 2021 | #1,284 | 179 |
| 2020 | #1,194 | 194 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 |
| 2018 | #1,206 | 196 |
| 2017 | #1,141 | 217 |
| 2016 | #1,106 | 232 |
| 2015 | #1,204 | 207 |
| 2014 | #1,143 | 218 |
| 2013 | #1,086 | 227 |
| 2012 | #1,174 | 209 |
| 2011 | #1,196 | 201 |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 |
| 2009 | #1,593 | 141 |
| 2008 | #1,664 | 134 |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 |
| 2006 | #1,702 | 123 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,424 | 70 |
| 2003 | #2,393 | 69 |
| 2002 | #3,103 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leela! It came in at #1,700, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1898–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Leela is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#774 · 1 in 3,944
- Colorado#789 · 1 in 3,888
- Minnesota#835 · 1 in 4,296
- Michigan#863 · 1 in 4,466
- California#889 · 1 in 5,054
Best ever in a state: #232 in District of Columbia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #774 | 9 | 1 in 3,944 |
| Colorado | #789 | 6 | 1 in 3,888 |
| Minnesota | #835 | 5 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Michigan | #863 | 8 | 1 in 4,466 |
| California | #889 | 32 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Illinois | #927 | 9 | 1 in 4,925 |
| Washington | #1,046 | 5 | 1 in 5,772 |
| New York | #1,165 | 12 | 1 in 6,527 |
| Florida | #1,325 | 10 | 1 in 8,676 |
| Texas | #1,352 | 18 | 1 in 8,919 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Leela
- 85 spots since 2020 (#1,194 → #1,279)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 2013 at #1,086 (227 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,638 girls born in 2016 were named Leela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,184 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,086 in 2013, was only 1 in 7,730 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.8% of all girls named Leela (2,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,700 (1898) | #1,700 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 16 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,602 |
| 1950s | 17 | #4,655 (1954) | #5,297 |
| 1960s | 47 | #4,198 (1966) | #5,124 |
| 1970s | 109 | #4,363 (1976) | #5,391 |
| 1980s | 158 | #3,527 (1984) | #5,138 |
| 1990s | 194 | #4,003 (1990) | #5,153 |
| 2000s | 864 | #1,593 (2009) | #2,362 |
| 2010s | 2,034 | #1,086 (2013) | #1,208 |
| 2020s | 1,091 | #1,194 (2020) | #1,269 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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