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Girl's name · #2374 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Lela belongs to an older America first — it reached #113 back in 1894 — yet it still appears in today's records at #2374. About 43,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 8 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,612 in Austria (2025).
Among 96 notable people named Lela:
Entertainers appear 1.88× more often than among typical names — e.g. Lela Rochon, American actress and film producer (born 1964).
Together with its spelling variant Leela (#1282), Lela would rank around #1003 with about 250 births last year — the newborns split about 70/30 between Leela and Lela.
Similar names: Leyla · Zaida · Lenna · Nella · Roxy · Hala
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