girls:
4.2k births since 1898
#2659 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1898
#4235 (45th percentile)
The name Leela is the #4,235 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,184 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 45.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,659 (53.5% percentile) for all time with 4,184 births since 1898.
Leela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (first recorded for girls in 1898). Birth data for Leela is available in 69 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Leela reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 23.8% percentile (ranked #710) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 120 births per million (ranked 23.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leela ranks #773 for girls (18.4% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 85.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leela".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Leela is pronounced as LEE-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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