Leilah
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/lejlɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Leilah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 76Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 119K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 310Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Leilah
- Portuguese:/lejlɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/leilah/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leilah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #886 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Leilah | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,797 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Leilah | 162 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Leilah | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Leilah | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 537K | — | Leilah | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 313K | 1 | Leilah | 45 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leilah Weinraubb. 1979USAmerican filmmaker, conceptual artist and former CEO
- Leilah Sutherlandb. 1985GBBritish actress
- Leilah de Mezab. 2003GBBritish actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leilah?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /lejlɐ/; in Swahili /leilah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What are other forms of the name Leilah?
- In the etymology graph, Leyla, Lila and Leila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Leilah a male or female name?
- Leilah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- Which countries have the most people named Leilah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Leilah in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leilah. After it come United States, Kenya, Tanzania and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Leilah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,797 people named Leilah in 2020, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Leilah compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Leilah is the 886th most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leilah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leilahThe 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, “Leilah” — ranked 766th in Uganda (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.