Leia
A Hebrew name at root, and a spelling of the older Leah, long read as "weary." Most Poles have never met one, but that is shifting: more girls got the name last year than in the years before.
Leia Pronunciation
Leia is pronounced LE-yah (/ˈlɛja/).
What Leia means
Where Leia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leia comes from Hebrew, a spelling of the older name Leah. The Hebrew le'ah has been read as "weary," and that reading has followed the name for a long time. Polish dictionaries give the sense plainly: zmęczona.
The first Leah appears in Genesis, the elder daughter of Laban and the first wife of Jacob. Scripture describes her tired eyes, and later readers tied the name's "weary" sense to that detail. Whether the meaning came first or the story did, the two have traveled together.
On a Polish class register today, Leia sits among names drawn from film and scripture alike. The form is short. Three vowels turn around a single consonant, and a teacher reads it at a glance.
The meaning need not weigh a child down. Leah in Genesis bore six sons and a daughter, and outlived her long rivalry. Leia keeps her Hebrew root and one plain gloss: weary, zmęczona.
How many people are named Leia
1 in 131069 women in Poland is named Leia. 172 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2438 among female names.
Leia's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #637 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2014.
Where Leia is most popular
Leia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 264% above the national average (9 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+156%) and Łódź (+151%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Pomeranian, 41% and 14% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian9 girls born+264%
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Lubusz2 girls born+156%
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Łódź5 girls born+151%
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Masovian12 girls born+115%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+16%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−14%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−41%
Leia as a middle name
Leia is a first name for 172 women in Poland and a middle name for another 42, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1064th, between Jozefa (42) and Marlene (42).
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#1062 Estela42
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#1063 Jozefa42
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#1064 Leia42
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#1065 Marlene42
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#1066 Salma42