Leja
14
Babies in 2024
-62%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 54
-18%
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 Leja
Leja has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 14 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 62% on a decade earlier.
Leja reached its peak in 2018, when 54 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #729 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 26% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 17 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 467 girls have been officially registered with the name Leja in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 361 girls were registered with the name, starting from 37 in 2014 and ending at 14 in 2024.