Leah (given name)
Leah is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. Its meaning is often deciphered as "delicate" or "weary". The name can be traced back to the Biblical matriarch Leah, one of the two wives of Jacob. This name may derive from, presumably cognate with Akkadian [wikt:?|], meaning 'wild cow', from Proto-Semitic *layʾ-at- ~ laʾay-at- 'cow'.
The name "Leah" also refers to the Old English word léah meaning "meadow". The word is a common component in Anglo-Saxon place names and can denote forests, clearings and fields.
Variants
- Lea – Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, 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 – Greek
- Liia – Estonian
- Lija – Latvian
Royalty
- Leah Isadora Behn, the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Public figures
- Leah Manning, British activist and politician
- Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Leah Rosenthal, Australian nurse who served in World War I
- Leah Ward Sears, American judge
Arts and sports
- Leah Applebaum, American voice actress
- Leah Ayres, American actress
- Leah Baird, American actress
- Leah Bertrand, sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- Leah Betts, British water intoxication / ecstasy victim
- Leah Bracknell, British actress
- Leah Cairns, Canadian actress
- Leah Cherniak, Canadian playwright and theatre director
- Leah Clark, American voice actress affiliated with Funimation
- Leah Dizon, American-born Japanese model and singer
- Leah Falland, American steeplechase runner
- Leah Fortune, Brazilian-American football player
- Leah Goldberg, Israeli writer
- Leah Goldstein, Canadian-born Israeli professional road racing cyclist, former World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel's Duathlon champion
- Leah Haywood, Australian singer
- Leah Horowitz (runner), Israeli Olympic hurdler
- Leah Jeffries, American actress
- Leah Kaslar, Australian rules footballer
- Leah Krinsky, American comedy writer
- Leah Laiman, American writer
- Leah Lewis, American actress
- Leah McHenry, Canadian musician and music educator
- Leah Miller, Canadian actress
- Leah Moore, British comic book writer
- Leah Neset, American ice dancer
- Leah Neuberger, American table tennis player
- Leah Owen, Welsh singer
- Leah Peasall, American bluegrass singer
- Leah Pells, Canadian track and field athlete
- Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
- Leah Pipes, American actress
- Leah Purcell, Australian actress
- Leah Remini, American actress
- Leah Rhodes, American costume designer
- Leah Song, American musician and activist
- Leah Van Dale, American professional wrestler better known as Carmella
- Leah Williamson, English footballer
Others
- Leah Berman, American mathematician
- Leah Carola Czollek, German author, mediator and trainer.
- Leah Chase, American chef
- Leah Findlater, Canadian and American computer scientist
- Leah Horowitz, Polish scholar and writer
- Leah Mosher, pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force
- Leah Namugerwa, climate activist
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, in the play The Dybbuk
- Queen Leah, mother of Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty
- 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 Jackson, a character in Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying
- 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
- Leah the Fruit Bat, a bat who appeared as a guest in the first season of Jim Henson's Animal Show
- Leah Banning, in the Has Fallen film series
- Leah Vaughn, in ''The Perfect Guy''