Leah (given name)

Leah is a female given name which has likely derived from the Hebrew word לְאָה (le'ah) meaning "weary". Alternatively, it might derive from a Chaldean name meaning "mistress" or "ruler" in Akkadian.

Variants include:

• Lea – Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Slovene, Swedish, Polish
• Léa – French
• Leah – English, Hebrew
• Leia – Koine Greek
• Lėja – Lithuanian
• Lia – Ecclesiastical Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
• Lía – Galician
• Λεία (Lia) – Greek
• Liia – Estonian

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 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 (born 1964), British actress
• Leah Cairns (born 1974), Canadian actress
• Leah Chase (born 1923), American chef
• Leah Clark, American-born Japanese voice actor and entertainer
• 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 (born 1933), Israeli Olympic hurdler
• Leah Krinsky, American comedy writer
• Leah Laiman (born 1946), American writer
• 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 Williamson (born 1997), English footballer

Fictional characters

• Leah, in the radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
• Leye (ashkenazic pronunciation), in the play The Dybbuk
• Leah Brahms, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Leah Cain, niece of Deckard Cain, a character in Diablo III, who assists and accompanies players.
• 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 television series Home and Away
• Leah Rose, in the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins