Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage Swedish (Modern), Finnish (Rare), Estonian (Rare) Pronounced Pron. LAY-ah(Swedish) [key] Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 8/17/2009 by anonymous Edited 12/9/2018 by Frollein Gladys Meaning & History Finnish variant of LEA. The name coincides with the Finnish word leija "kite".