girls:
1.4k births since 1963
#4367 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1963
#6384 (17th percentile)
The name Leiah is the #6,384 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,359 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 17.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,367 (23.6% percentile) for all time with 1,359 births since 1963.
Leiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for girls in 1963). Birth data for Leiah is available in 53 out of the 61 years between 1963 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, Leiah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #864) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 40 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leiah ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 54.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leiah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Leiah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 38 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Leah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Leah..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.5% confident that Leiah is pronounced as LEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-uh, at 46.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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