Leela is from the Sanskrit līlā (लीला — divine play, divine sport, cosmic play). 5th-2nd century BCE), the Bhagavata Purana (c. 800-1000 CE), and broader Hindu spiritual literature; the iconic Ram Lila (the annual reenactment of the Ramayana) is one of the most-celebrated Indian dramatic traditions — inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list (2008). Princess Leela — Hindu heritage naming.
and divine play philosophy.
Leela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leela reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.