Leilah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leilah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 119K(measured from records)
- UGUganda≈1 in 14K
- KEKenya≈1 in 94K
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Leilah | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,797 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Leilah | 162 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Leilah | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Leilah | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 571K | — | Leilah | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 306K | 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 Assunçãob. 1943BRBrazilian writer
- Leilah Nadirb. 1971CACanadian writer
- Leilah Weinraubb. 1979USAmerican filmmaker, conceptual artist and former CEO
- Leilah Sutherlandb. 1985GBBritish actress
- Leilah Babiryeb. 1985UGUgandan-born American visual artist, wood sculptor (born 1985)
- Leilah Morenob. 1987BRBrazilian actress
- Leilah Lilienruhb. 2000DEGerman writer, componist and journalist
- Leilah de Mezab. 2003GBBritish actress
- Leilah Costaplastic artist
- Leilah Kirkham(died 1904)
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,911 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 251 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 216 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 215 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 211 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 205 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 204 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 198 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 125 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #766 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leilah?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫɪɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Leilah a male or female name?
- Leilah 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.
- 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.
- In which country does Leilah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Leilah in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leilah.
- 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” — the 886th most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.