Leya
- #2,153 for girls in 2025, 86 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 86 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,705since 1968
Leya over time
Rank among girls' names. Leya has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,153 | 86 |
| 2024 | #2,327 | 79 |
| 2023 | #2,379 | 76 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #2,416 | 74 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 |
| 2009 | #3,409 | 48 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 |
| 2004 | #3,689 | 39 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leya! It came in at #4,779, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Leya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#690 · 1 in 3,248
- Pennsylvania#1,231 · 1 in 7,781
- Florida#1,545 · 1 in 10,845
- New York#1,654 · 1 in 11,190
- California#1,742 · 1 in 13,477
Best ever in a state: #690 in Michigan, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #690 | 11 | 1 in 3,248 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 6 | 1 in 7,781 |
| Florida | #1,545 | 8 | 1 in 10,845 |
| New York | #1,654 | 7 | 1 in 11,190 |
| California | #1,742 | 12 | 1 in 13,477 |
| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
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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 Leya
- 174 spots since 2024 (#2,327 → #2,153)
- 444 spots since 2020 (#2,597 → #2,153)
- 871 spots since 2015 (#3,024 → #2,153)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2025 at #2,153 (86 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,689 girls born in 2025 were named Leya (0.01%)
- 30.0% of all girls named Leya (511) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #4,779 (1968) | #5,118 |
| 1970s | 82 | #4,931 (1978) | #6,117 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,716 (1982) | #7,095 |
| 1990s | 138 | #4,739 (1996) | #7,152 |
| 2000s | 406 | #2,815 (2006) | #3,732 |
| 2010s | 511 | #2,451 (2019) | #3,254 |
| 2020s | 447 | #2,153 (2025) | #2,413 |
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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