Leina
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/lejnɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Leina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 44K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 83K
- SISlovenia1 in 162K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Leina | 6 |
| FR France | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 1.5K | Leina | 131 |
| US United States | 749 | 1 in 444K | 745 | Leina | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 642 | 1 in 330K | 642 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Leina | 5 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Leina | 8 |
| LV Latvia | 43 | 1 in 44K | 43 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 11 | Leina | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Leina is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, genitive singular of lein
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, " Leiña (B), variedad de manzana" A . " Leina (B), manzana menuda, tierna y de poca duración" Ib. (s.v. sagar ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Leuna"), Saksijas-Anhaltes federālajā zemē, 13900 iedzīvotāju (2013.g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Leun"), Hesenes federālajā zemē, 5700 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mazahreh Leina Fehmib. 1990JObadminton player
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)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.5K | #2,877 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 745 | #15,379 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 642 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 641 | #6,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 640 | #11,251 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 616 | #12,552 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 43 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 43 | #1,720 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 32 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 28 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #2,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #15,379 |
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 Leina?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /lejnɐ/; in Swahili /leina/; in Spanish /leina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Leina a male or female name?
- Leina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Leina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 837 people named Leina in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leina.
- How common is the name Leina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 749 people named Leina in 2020, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leinaThe 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, “Leina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.