Leyah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leyah is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.
- SESweden1 in 144K◐
- FRFrance1 in 200K
- USUnited States1 in 374K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3K ●
- Sources
- 117 ●
- 1 in 144K ◐
across 5 countries
930 records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 890 | 756 rec. | 1 in 374K | 890 | Leyah | 117 |
| FR France | 340 | — | 1 in 200K | 340 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 71 | 0 rec. | 1 in 144K | 71 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | 63 | 56 rec. | — | 1 | Leyah | 19 |
| CA Canada | 58 | 10 rec. | — | 1 | Leyah | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | 38 | 23 rec. | — | listed | Leyah | 22 |
| PH Philippines | 28 | 15 rec. | — | — | Leyah | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 14△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Leyah | 3 |
| IT Italy | 14 | 17 rec. | — | — | Leyah | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | 13 | 14 rec. | — | — | Leyah | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 rec. | — | 5 | Leyah | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | — | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
Roughly 890 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 374K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.2K43%
- French1.1K39%
- Swahili1064%
- 572%
- Spanish532%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,193 | 43% |
| French | 1,088 | 39% |
| Swahili | 106 | 4% |
| 57 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 53 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 11 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 33 |
| 2004 | 38 |
| 2005 | 46 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 42 |
| 2008 | 54 |
| 2009 | 55 |
| 2010 | 82 |
| 2011 | 83 |
| 2012 | 72 |
| 2013 | 76 |
| 2014 | 67 |
| 2015 | 61 |
| 2016 | 53 |
| 2017 | 54 |
| 2018 | 45 |
| 2019 | 37 |
| 2020 | 45 |
| 2021 | 37 |
| 2022 | 34 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 39 |
| 2025 | 28 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 890 | #13,474 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 340 | #694 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 83 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 76 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 71 | #10,758 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 61 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 54 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 87 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Leyah?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Leyah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Leyah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 890 people bear Leyah in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled leyah.
- Where is Leyah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leyah is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 144 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Leyah a male or female name?
- Leyah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leyah”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.