Leiyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Leiyah by the numbers
Leiyah was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 29 babies in 2011, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Leiyah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Leiyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Leiyah
Names that are said the same way as Leiyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Leiyah
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