Lelah
Lelah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 480th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191543 births
- Best rank
- #480in 1891
- Since 1881
- 2,177people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,177 girls have been named Lelah in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 14%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lelah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 139 | |
| 1890s | 294 | |
| 1900s | 211 | |
| 1910s | 309 | |
| 1920s | 306 | |
| 1930s | 173 | |
| 1940s | 82 | |
| 1950s | 50 | |
| 1960s | 42 | |
| 1970s | 64 | |
| 1980s | 59 | |
| 1990s | 30 | |
| 2000s | 174 | |
| 2010s | 179 | |
| 2020s | 65 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Lelah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Lelah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cordiepeak 1919
- Metapeak 1892
- Bessiepeak 1916
- Mabelpeak 1915
- Minnapeak 1916
- Zulapeak 1922
- Gertiepeak 1918
- Loniepeak 1914
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.