Leah
The 2025 national count puts Leah at #58, sitting where it has sat for years. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 256,488 American bearers across the record.
What Leah carries
Leah · Hebrew
“weary, 7”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Leah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Leah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Leah since 1880
Leah peaked in 2009 at #29; #58 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Leah is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Leah runs strongest in Delaware at 0.8% in 2025, then New York and New Jersey.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Leah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lia
#200 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ian
#83 in 2025 · Hebrew
Juan
#159 in 2025 · Hebrew
Levi
#12 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaiah
#57 in 2025 · Hebrew
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ezekiel
#61 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Leah
How popular is the name Leah?
The 2025 national count puts Leah at #58, sitting where it has sat for years. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Leah mean?
“weary, 7” is the meaning our source sets down, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Leah?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Lia sits closest, with Ian and Juan just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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