Leah (given name)

Leah is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. 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'. The name can be traced back to the Biblical matriarch, Leah, one of the two wives of Jacob.

The name is the origin of the Ashkenazi Jewish matronymic surname Leykin/Leikin/Leikind.

Variants

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

Royalty

• Leah Isadora Behn, the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

Public figures

• 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

Arts and sports

• 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 Fortune (born 1990), Brazilian-American football (soccer) player
• Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli writer
• Leah Goldstein (born 1969), Israeli cyclist
• Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli fashion designer
• Leah Haywood (born 1976), Australian singer
• Leah Horowitz (runner) (born 1933), Israeli Olympic hurdler
• 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 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 (born 1970), American actress
• Leah Rhodes (1902–1986), American costume designer
• Léa Seydoux (born 1985), French actress
• Leah Song, American musician and activist
• Leah Van Dale (born 1987), American professional wrestler better known as Carmella
• Leah Williamson (born 1997), English footballer

Others

• Leah Berman (born 1976), American mathematician
• 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
• Lia (stage name), member of ITZY

Fictional characters

• Leah, in the British radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
• Leah, in the American animated TV series Shimmer and Shine
• Leah, in the 2018 TV series The Crossing
• Leah, in the American TV series The Walking Dead
• Leah, in the 2018 movie Love, Simon
• Leah Murphy, in the American medical drama TV series Grey's Anatomy
• Leye (ashkenazic pronunciation), in the play The Dybbuk
• Queen Leah, mother of Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty
• Leia Organa, from the Star Wars Saga
• Leah Brahms, in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Leah Clearwater, in the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer
• Leah Estrogen, in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones
• Leah Mordecai, title character of the 1856 novel by Belle K. Abbott
• Leah Patterson-Baker, in the Australian TV series Home and Away
• Leah Rose, in the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
• Leah Kazuno, one of the two members of Saint Snow
• Leah Rilke, in the TV series The Wilds.