Leela

Where Leela comes from

The dictionaries list Leela as a given name — a female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,700 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2013
    Peak, #1,086
    227 babies named Leela — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Leela hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.