Leah name meaning, origin, famous people, and graphic designs

Name: Leah

Pronunciation: leah

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning: Weary; Delicate

Gender: girl’s name, feminine given name

Story of Leah name 🔗

Leah is a baby girl name of Hebrew origin. Meaning “delicate” or “weary”, this baby name has nothing to worry about, as its soothing nature has traveled across Kenya, England, and the United States.

In the Old Testament, Leah was one of the two beautiful and loyal wives of Jacob.

This name may derive from Hebrew: לֵאָה, romanized: lē’ah, presumably cognate with Akkadian 𒀖 littu, meaning ‘wild cow’, from Proto-Semitic *layʾ-at- ~ laʾay-at- ‘cow’.

In some instances, the name “Leah” may refer to the Old English word léah which means “meadow” or “piece of ground”. The word is a common component in Anglo-Saxon place-names and can denote forests, clearings and fields.

Whether you’re raising baby spiritually or not, the name Leah can inspire your little one to be the best version of themselves that they can.

Variants of Leah 🔗

• Lea – Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Yoruba, Hawaiian
• Léa – French
• לאה – Hebrew
• Liya – Amharic, Turkish
• Leah – English
• Leia – Koine Greek, Portuguese
• Lėja – Lithuanian
• Lia – Ecclesiastical Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, German, Catalan
• Lía – Galician
• Liadh – Irish
• Lìyǎ – Chinese
• Liah
• Lya
• Λεία (Lia) – Greek
• Liia – Estonian
• Lija – Latvian
• ليئة - Arabic

Common Nicknames for Leah 🔗

• Lee
• Lala
• Lia

Graphic designs for Leah 🔗

Leah, the given name, is formed using flowers and roses:

Popular people named Leah 🔗

• Leah Isadora Behn, the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
• Leah Manning (1886–1977), British activist and politician
• Leah Rabin (1928–2000), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
• Leah Rosenthal (1879–1930), Australian nurse who served in World War I
• Leah Ward Sears (born 1955), American judge
• Leah Applebaum, American voice actress
• Leah Ayres (born 1957), American actress
• Leah Baird (1883–1971), American actress
• Leah Betts (1977–1995), British water intoxication / ecstasy victim
• Leah Bracknell (1964–2019), British actress
• Leah Cairns (born 1974), Canadian actress
• Leah Cherniak (born 1956), Canadian playwright and theatre director
• Leah Clark (born 1979), American voice actress affiliated with Funimation
• Leah Dizon (born 1986), American-born Japanese model and singer
• Leah Falland (born 1992), American steeplechase runner
• Leah Fortune (born 1990), Brazilian-American football (soccer) player
• Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli writer
• Leah Goldstein (born 1969), Canadian-born Israeli professional road racing cyclist, former World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel’s Duathlon champion
• Leah Haywood (born 1976), Australian singer
• Leah Horowitz (runner) (1933–1956), Israeli Olympic hurdler
• Leah Jeffries (born 2009), American actress
• Leah Kaslar (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
• Leah Krinsky, American comedy writer
• Leah Laiman (born 1946), American writer
• Leah McHenry (born 1984), Canadian musician and music educator
• Leah Miller (born 1981), Canadian actress
• Leah Moore (born 1978), British comic book writer
• Leah Neuberger (1915–1993), American table tennis player
• Leah Owen (1953–2024), Welsh singer
• Leah Pells (born 1964), Canadian track and field athlete
• Leah Pinsent (born 1968), Canadian actress
• Leah Pipes (born 1988), American actress
• Leah Purcell (born 1970), Australian actress
• Leah Remini, American actress
• Leah Rhodes (1902–1986), American costume designer
• Leah Song, American musician and activist
• Leah Van Dale (born 1987), American professional wrestler better known as Carmella
• Leah Williamson (born 1997), English footballer
• Leah Berman (born 1976), American mathematician
• Leah Carola Czollek (born 1954), German author, mediator and trainer.
• Leah Chase (1923–2019), American chef
• Leah Findlater, Canadian and American computer scientist
• Leah Horowitz (1680–1755), Polish scholar and writer
• Leah Mosher, pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force
• Leah Namugerwa (born 2004), climate activist

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