Lelah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Lelah by the numbers
Lelah was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 1915, making it a 1910s name.
What we can tell you about Lelah
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 Lelah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Leahweary; also delicate5,168 in the US (2017)
- Lilahnight; a form of leila or lilith464 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lylahnight; a form of Leila or Lilith85 in England and Wales (2025)
- Leilahnight; a form of Layla204 in the US (2017)
- Leladivine play; a form of Leela142 in the US (2017)
- Leylahnight; a form of Layla58 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Lelah
Names that are said the same way as Lelah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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