Leáh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leáh is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Leah, in regular use since the 1990s. Used as a modern spelling variant of the Norwegian biblical name Lea.
- RORomania≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leáh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #599 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 570 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 671 (inferred from the name graph)
200,964 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Leah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Lia in GE Georgia, BR Brazil, FI Finland and לאה in IL Israel, RO Romania.
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)From English Leah, in regular use since the 1990s. Used as a modern spelling variant of the Norwegian biblical name Lea.
Cited for this meaning 8
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leáh 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #377 | 200,964 | 1 in 1.7K | 201K | Leah | 570 |
| PH Philippines | #174 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 53K | Leah | 155 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | — | לאה | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | #322 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 480 | Leah | 307 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,649as Lia | 1 in 9K | 24K | Lia | 154 |
| GE Georgia | #33 | 23,613as ლია | 1 in 169 | 24K | Lia | 64 |
| IL Israel | #18 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | 1.1K | לאה | 86 |
| FI Finland | — | 11,049as Lea | 1 in 504 | 20K | Lia | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 5,344as Lea | 1 in 791 | 7.3K | — | 1 |
200,964 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leáh mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Leah, in regular use since the 1990s. Used as a modern spelling variant of the Norwegian biblical name Lea. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- Is Leáh a male or female name?
- Leáh 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 Leáh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 201 thousand people named Leáh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leah.
- How common is the name Leáh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200,964 people named Leáh in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Leáh compared with other names?
- In the United States, Leáh is the 377th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C3%A1hThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Leáh” — the 377th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.