Leya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Leya: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #555, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#555highest recorded position
6groupings 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
1998	#2407
1999	#1805
2000	#1139
2001	#1617
2002	#1372
2003	#1129
2004	#1252
2005	#1500
2006	#2137
2007	#2085
2008	#1815
2009	#1365
2010	#1653
2011	#1608
2012	#2095
2013	#1587
2014	#1367
2015	#1783
2016	#1525
2017	#1512
2018	#1977
2019	#1497
2020	#1065
2021	#1069
2022	#1180
2023	#941
2024	#918

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 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #918 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · 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 recorded2015–2025
Highest recorded position: #555 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2015–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Leya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 518 births with the name.

Leya 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.

Leya'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)	#918 (2024)	#918 (2024)	28 of 29	518 (1996–2024)	39 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#555 (2023)	#608 (2025)	7 of 11	28 (2015–2025)	6 (2023)

Leya 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 Leya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	151	10 of 10	15
2010s	182	10 of 10	18
2020sbusiest	167	5 of 10	33

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 33 births a year.

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

Leya 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #555 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Leya'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	#918	39	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1180	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1525	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1365	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1129	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1139	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #555, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 28 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.

Lexie · #68, 30y
Lexy · #1153, 22y
Leyah · #1658, 19y
Leyan · #3533, 12y

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.

Zia · #556, 30y
Ameer · #559, 30y
Ayaz · #560, 29y
Esa · #549, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Elliana · #555, 25y
Jamil · #555, 29y
Avi · #556, 30y
Fahim · #554, 28y

Leya was ranked #555 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Leya 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 Leya without appearing here.

Leya moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1497 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2095 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1587 and #4739.
Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1805 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1139 and #3912.
Linnea Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3795 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1139 and #3912.

Moved ahead of Leya

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1367 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1783 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1512 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #1436.
Frida Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1365 and #1526 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #1218.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #2137.

Moved the opposite way to Leya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Leya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leya went from #3795 to #918 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #555 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leya

Leya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leya across 2 official records

Leya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Leya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Leya

Leya and the names beside it

Leya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Leya

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Leya at a glance

Leya across 2 official records

Leya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Leya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Leya

Leya and the names beside it

Leya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Leya

Moved the opposite way to Leya

Moved the same way as Leya