Lelia

Where Lelia comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lelia.

  • Vowel-ended
Lelia through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #186 among girls, with 65 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #163
    95 babies named Lelia, its best rank.
  3. 1924
    Lelia Spuhr born
    Argentine athletics competitor
  4. 1936
    Lelia Goldoni born
    American actress
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,702.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Lelia Goldoni · American actress, 1936–2023
  • Lelia Spuhr · Argentine athletics competitor, 1924–2006
  • Lelia Smith Cocke · American painter, 1859–1899
  • Lelia Constanța Băjenescu · first amateur radio in Romania., 1908–1980

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.