Leela

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Leela: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #353 in 2016, and it stood at #934 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#353highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#2165
1999	#3900
2000	#2167
2001	#2023
2002	#2540
2003	#1383
2004	#1252
2005	#1200
2006	#1031
2007	#919
2008	#1034
2009	#982
2010	#862
2011	#937
2012	#1058
2013	#825
2014	#535
2015	#365
2016	#553
2017	#609
2018	#767
2019	#796
2020	#840
2021	#840
2022	#826
2023	#865
2024	#934

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #355 among girls in Northern Ireland, #609 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2017
Highest recorded position: #353 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2016–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #934 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Leela appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,025 births with the name.

Leela across 2 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.

Leela'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	#3795 (1996)	#365 (2015)	#934 (2024)	29 of 29	1,025 (1996–2024)	126 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#353 (2016)	#353 (2016)	#355 (2017)	2 of 2	8 (2016–2017)	4 (2016)

Leela 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 Leela in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	196	10 of 10	20
2010sbusiest	605	10 of 10	61
2020s	207	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births fell by 50, from 126 to 76.

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

Leela 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #353 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Leela'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	#934	38	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#826	43	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#840	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#796	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#767	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#609	69	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#553	76	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#365	126	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#535	79	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#862	41	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#982	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#919	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1031	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1200	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #353, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 126 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 20 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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Leeanne · #297, 24y
Leen · #458, 24y
Leena · #559, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Jorgia · #353, 26y
Phuong · #353, 34y
Denisa · #352, 26y
Juanita · #354, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Caprice · #353, 24y
Henri · #353, 30y
Jorgia · #353, 26y
Kianna · #353, 29y

Leela was ranked #353 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.

Leela 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 Leela without appearing here.

Leela moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1200 and #3970.
Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3900 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #3998.
Ellinor Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3900 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2167 and #3912.

Moved ahead of Leela

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #796 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #840 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #553 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #609 and #499.
Harper Compare
In 2010 they stood at #862 and #930 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #937 and #858.

Moved the opposite way to Leela

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Leela

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leela went from #3795 to #934 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #353 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leela

Leela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leela across 2 official records

Leela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Leela across 2 official records

Leela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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