Léia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of Leia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Léia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 29K
  • SESweden1 in 2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

24,550 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LéiaLatin(measured from records)
ΛειαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leia in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of Leia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Léia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Léia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil24,5501 in 8.6K27KLeia112
US United States11,3111 in 29K11KLeia149
SE Sweden5,1581 in 2K5.2K—7
ES Spain1,6721 in 30K1.7KLeia27
ID Indonesia≈1,200 est.≈1 in 220K—Leia25
FI Finland2291 in 24K265—2
MD Moldova1431 in 24K143——

24,550 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Léia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Leia, Léïa, Leîa, Léîa, Lèïa

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Leïa, Leia, Lei︠a︡

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Leia, Lei'A, Leïa, Lèia, Leía

  • Korean given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written Leia

  • Thai given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Lea, Leia, เลอา, Léa, Léá

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Léia Scheinvar, b. 1930Leia Dongue, b. 1991Alva Bratt, b. 1998Leia Dozzi, b. 1999Leia Braunagel, b. 2000Leia Holtwick, b. 2002Leia Brebner-Holden, b. 2002Leia Zhu, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Léia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—27K#1,162

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Léia mean, and where does it come from?
Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of Leia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Léia a male or female name?
Léia 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.
In which country does Léia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Léia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leia.
Where is Léia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Léia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 24,550 people named Léia in 2022, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Léia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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