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How popular is the name Leja?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lejas are alive today.
Leja (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Leya in England and Wales, ranked 3035th in 2025 and given to 8 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 54 babies were given the name, the 729th most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 15% of its peak.
Across all spellings of the name, the Leya you are most likely to meet is around 7 years old. Half of all Leyas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 14, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Leya - on average, only one in every 243 such rooms contains a Leya.
How many babies are named Leja each year?
Includes all spellings: Leja, Laya, Leya. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Leja spelling rank?
Where does the Laya spelling rank?
Where does the Leya spelling rank?
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 Leja most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Leya, peaked in 2018, when 91 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Leja spelling itself peaked in 2018, with 54 babies.
How many people are called Leja?
At least 1,300 people named Leja in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Leja?
Most living Lejas are between 5 and 14; the most common age is about 7.
Is Leja becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2018 peak.