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How popular is the name Leela?
Births per year, rank history and how many Leelas are alive today.
Leela (female) is an uncommon spelling of the girls' name Leila in England and Wales, ranked 719th in 2025 with 51 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2015, when 126 babies were given the name, the 365th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 934 in 2024 before climbing back to the 719th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
Across all spellings of the name, the Leila you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Leilas born in England and Wales are between 8 and 19, and there are at least 13,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 4% chance that at least one of them will be called Leila.
How many babies are named Leela each year?
Includes all spellings: Leela, Leila, Leilah, Lila. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Leela spelling rank?
Where does the Leila spelling rank?
Where does the Leilah spelling rank?
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Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Leela most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Leila, peaked in 2015, when 680 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Leela spelling itself peaked in 2015, with 126 babies.
How many people are called Leela?
At least 13,000 people named Leela in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Leela?
Most living Leelas are between 8 and 19; the most common age is about 15.
Is Leela becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.