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.
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