Leah (given name)
Leah is a Hebrew, female given name. The origin of the name is not certain, but it would appear to derive from the Akkadian for cow. According to popular false etymologies, the name means delicate or weary.
Variants include:
- Léa French
- Lea Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Slovene, Swedish
- Leah English, Hebrew
- Leia Koine Greek
- Lía Galician
- Lia Ecclesiastical Latin, Italian, Portuguese
Nicknames
Leah may refer to:
People
- Leah Applebaum, American voice actress
- Leah Ayres (born 1957), 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 Krinsky, American comedy writer
- Leah Laiman (born 1946), American writer
- Leah Manning (1886–1977), British activist and politician
- 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 Rabin (1928–2000), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Leah Remini (born 1970), American actress
- Leah Rhodes (1902–1986), American costume designer
- Leah Ward Sears (born 1955), American judge
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, who assists and accompanies players like Deckard used to - Deckard himself is also supposed to appear in Diablo III.
- Leah Clearwater, in the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer
- Leah Cornish, in Shadows by Stella Cameron
- 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