Leja

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Leja: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Leja: Recorded every year since 2008, it reached #251 in 2016, and it stood at #631 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#251highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#4524
2009	#4564
2010	#2589
2011	#1225
2012	#1428
2013	#900
2014	#986
2015	#891
2016	#861
2017	#1105
2018	#729
2019	#778
2020	#969
2021	#1454
2022	#1501
2023	#1705
2024	#2000

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2000 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4524 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2012–2021
Highest recorded position: #251 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2012–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Leja appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 467 births with the name.

Leja across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Leja's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4524 (2008)	#729 (2018)	#2000 (2024)	17 of 17	467 (2008–2024)	54 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#582 (2009)	#365 (2017)	#631 (2024)	16 of 16	113 (2009–2024)	11 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#251 (2016)	#446 (2021)	8 of 10	34 (2012–2021)	7 (2016)

Leja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Leja in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	8	2 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	352	10 of 10	35
2020s	107	5 of 10	21

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Leja appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #251 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Leja's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#969	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#729	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#861	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#891	41	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#986	37	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1428	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#251	7	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#269	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#365	11	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#402	11	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#427	10	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2008 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #251, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eryk · #252, 22y
Benas · #253, 22y
Brea · #253, 21y
Aodan · #254, 20y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Eryk · #252, 22y
Kylo · #252, 15y
Benas · #253, 22y
Ava-Rose · #248, 18y

Leja was ranked #251 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leja and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Leja without appearing here.

Leja moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1225 and #5785.
Malin Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4564 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1225 and #4764.
Pauline Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2589 and #2589 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1225 and #4764.
Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1428 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #900 and #4050.

Moved ahead of Leja

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #778 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #969 and #460.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #495 and #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #502.
Thea Compare
In 2012 they stood at #383 and #451 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #440 and #178.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Leja

Abigail Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 while Abigail went from #29 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 while Aimee went from #86 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 while Alex went from #397 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 while Alexandra went from #90 to #215.

Moved the same way as Leja

Ada Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 and Ada from #699 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 and Alma from #1247 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 and Amelia from #9 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leja went from #4524 to #2000 and Aria from #1135 to #35.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #251 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leja

Leja at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leja across 3 official records

Leja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Leja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Leja at a glance

Leja across 3 official records

Leja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Leja appears in

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Leja

Leja and the names beside it

Leja moved ahead of

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