Leatha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leatha has been given to 6,023 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 138 recorded.
Babies named Leatha, 2000
1 in 630,000
Leatha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Leatha?
Leatha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 630,000
- 6 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 303,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 436,510 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leatha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leathas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leatha was born before 1931 — so the typical Leatha is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 16.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,758
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (1,016).
Is Leatha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (138)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.1% average annual change
Spellings of Leatha
Leatha is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 41.8% against Leatha's 0.98%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Leatha is used
Across 1910–2025, Leatha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 51,203 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 8,333
- 2South Carolina1 in 11,111
- 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 5Alabama1 in 25,000
- 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
- 7Georgia1 in 33,333
- 8Louisiana1 in 33,333
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leatha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leatha around the world
Where Leatha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1954–1954#475in 1954
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Leatha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leatha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Leatha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leatha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Leatha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.