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Leela

Rank in 2024
#1,251
Born in 2024
185
Peak year
2016 · #1106
Origin
Sanskrit

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 185 girls were named Leela, about 1 in every 8,720.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 232 babies, ranked #1106.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1898.
  • 4,369 girls have been named Leela since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Leela per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 43 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 155 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 270 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,471 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,405 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.
Origin
Sanskrit
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Leela, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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    #370
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