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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 .
[1] 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'.[
citation needed ]
Variants
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
Royalty
Public figures
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 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 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
Others
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
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
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
See also
References
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names . Oxford University Press. pp. 165, 166.
ISBN
0-19-861060-2 .