Leelah
- #6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 32 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 446since 2000
Leelah over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Leelah has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
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First appearance
2000
The first year at least five girls were named Leelah! It came in at #15,031, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2002, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Leelah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Leelah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 278 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,116)
- 1,853 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #6,116)
- 463 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2018 at #4,357 (32 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 53,159
- Highest: 1 in 53,159 girls born in 2018 were named Leelah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 57.2% of all girls named Leelah (255) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 92 | #7,142 (2006) | #11,491 |
| 2010s | 255 | #4,357 (2018) | #5,307 |
| 2020s | 99 | #5,984 (2022) | #6,902 |
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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