Leya

Where Leya comes from

Borrowed from Turkish Leya and Arabic لَيْيَا (layyā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Leya
  • Turkish
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,779 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #2,153
    86 babies named Leya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Turkish or Arabic.
Namesakes

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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.