Leia Girl
How popular is Leia?
#297 girl name in 2025
1,033 baby girls were named Leia in the US in 2025, making it the 297th most popular girl name.
Leia popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #297 for girls (▼ 8 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,033 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+35% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #420 in 2015, #296 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (1,424 girls) |
| Highest rank | #211 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1949 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Leia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Leia family of names ranked #280 for girls in 2025 (#268 the year before), with 1,180 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Leia is most popular
Babies named Leia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 6.7 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- New Mexico: 2.4 per 1,000 (58 girls)
- Nevada: 1.7 per 1,000 (81 girls)
- Delaware: 1.7 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- California: 1.5 per 1,000 (1,240 girls)
Leia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #4,234 |
| 1950s | 16 | #5,207 |
| 1960s | 220 | #1,980 |
| 1970s | 518 | #910 |
| 1980s | 974 | #921 |
| 1990s | 764 | #1,523 |
| 2000s | 2,103 | #824 |
| 2010s | 7,238 | #278 |
| 2020s | 6,938 | #211 |
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Questions
- Is Leia a boy or girl name?
- Leia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Leia were girls.
- How popular is the name Leia?
- 1,033 baby girls were named Leia in the US in 2025, making it the 297th most popular girl name.
- When was Leia most popular?
- Leia peaked in 2023, when 1,424 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #211 in 2023.
- How many people are named Leia?
- 18,778 babies have been named Leia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 18,612 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Leia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Leia was most common in Hawaii, at 6.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.