Leba

#7,001 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Leba has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,001 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Leba, 2025

1 in 207,000

Leba over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leba: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leba means

Leba is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leba is used in Sandawe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Leba between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,985 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,985 in 2020 to #7,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,993 in 2015 to #7,001 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leba?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 207,000; 16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 100,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,001; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 143,620 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Leba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lebas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leba was born before 2016 — so the typical Leba is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 90.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 217; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Leba 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: −460; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,016; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +10,992; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 3.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 80.0%; Peak was 2020 (20)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 52.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,985; 2020

Spellings of Leba

Leba is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.6% against Leba's <0.01%.

Lisa22.6%967,229
Debra12.9%550,695
Eva6.7%284,761
Leah6.0%256,488
Vera3.5%149,456
Lena3.4%146,479
Alexa3.1%131,551
Leona2.6%113,330

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 Leba is used

Across 1910–2025, Leba was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 206,635 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New Jersey1 in 100,000
2New York1 in —

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. Leba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leba by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,016
Best rank ever: #5,985; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 20 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 217
Count in 2025: 16

Names similar to Leba

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Leeba Zeba Heba Seba Meba Areeba Djeneba Elisheba Keba Pheba Tasheba Deeba Sheba Rheba Deba Treba Makeba Akeba Lieba Leberta Tayeba Sheeba Lasheba Keeba

Sibling names for Leba

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Kale Aaden Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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