Lelah
Recorded 1881–2025 · United States
Lelah was most popular in 1915, when 43 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,910 that year. In 2025 it ranked #16,070, with 10 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,187 people named Lelah.
Lelah over time
How old is the name Lelah?
Lelah first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 131 of the 145 years since.
How many people are named Lelah?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,187 American births named Lelah between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 743 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Lelah in 2025?
10 American babies were named Lelah in 2025, ranking #16,070 that year.
Is Lelah getting more or less popular?
Lelah is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 18 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Lelah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Lelah is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,187 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Lelah?
Roughly 743 Americans named Lelah are alive today — 34% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 21 years old, and half are between 13 and 54. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org