Given name & surname
Leaf
“woman of the forest”
Leaf is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “woman of the forest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “woman of the forest.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Leaf through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 134
- 134 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 297 as a first name in 2020; 2,896 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Leaf’s family of names
Leaf has a related form in Leif. Leaf has a related form in Leafea. Leaf has a related form in Leafee.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Leaf
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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