US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE LEAH

Same rise and fall as Leah, around the same years.

WHERE LEAH IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Leah ranked highest in New York (#27) and lowest in West Virginia (#550). 2 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Leah name popularity

Leah has been given to 256,954 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2009, when 6,799 babies got the name, and its best rank was #92 in 2010.

In 2025, 3,880 babies were named Leah (#151 in the country), 43% below the peak. That is down 31% from 2015.

Almost every Leah is a girl.

An estimated 233K people named Leah are alive in the US today, with a median age of 24.

It was a top-100 name in 3 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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