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Lela

Rank in 2024
#2,199
Born in 2024
86
Peak year
1921 · #212
Origin
Arabic, Georgian

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 86 girls were named Lela, about 1 in every 18,758.
  • It peaked in 1921 with 907 babies, ranked #212.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 42,926 girls have been named Lela since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.9
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 17,500 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Silent: 7,968 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,548 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,765 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,251 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,061 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,496 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A female given name from Georgian ლელა (lela).
  • A female given name from Arabic, possibly a variant of Leila.
Origin
Arabic, Georgian
Say it
Not recorded

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

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