Leela
38
Babies in 2024
-52%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 126
-7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Leela
Leela has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 38 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 52% on a decade earlier.
Leela reached its peak in 2015, when 126 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #365 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 30% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,025 girls have been officially registered with the name Leela in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 654 girls were registered with the name, starting from 79 in 2014 and ending at 38 in 2024.