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How popular is “Leiah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leiah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Leiah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Leiah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Leiah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Leiah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Leiah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leiah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 100%
1981 16 0.000004625 16 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 100%
2005 44 0.000011444 44 100%
2006 42 0.000010616 42 100%
2007 42 0.000010506 42 100%
2008 42 0.000010685 42 100%
2009 47 0.000012303 47 100%
2010 69 0.00001867 69 100%
2011 51 0.000013943 51 100%
2012 78 0.000021327 78 100%
2013 61 0.000016732 61 100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 100%
2015 51 0.00001378 51 100%
2016 63 0.000017172 63 100%
2017 57 0.000015939 57 100%
2018 66 0.000018772 66 100%
2019 50 0.000014405 50 100%
2020 47 0.000014069 47 100%
2021 51 0.000015053 51 100%
2022 42 0.000012415 42 100%
2023 39 0.000011778 39 100%
2024 44 0.000013219 44 100%

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