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Leda

#8,639 in 2025Girls' name

Leto, through Λήδα

Leda has been given to 3,448 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,639 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Leda, 2025

1 in 276,000

Leda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leda: meaning, origin, and history

Leto, through Λήδα

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leda means

Leda belongs to the name family reached through Leda → Λήδα. Its meaning is “Leto”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leda is used in Italian and Slovene.

Leda comes through Ancient Greek Λήδα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Λήδα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Leda is pronounced /ˈlɛ.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,448 girls were recorded with the name Leda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1920; its best national rank was #516 in 1904.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,414 in 2020 to #8,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,051 in 2015 to #8,639 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 Leda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,639
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leda 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ledas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leda was born before 1943 — so the typical Leda is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,473
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (455).

Is Leda 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
−836
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,225
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,588
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.7%
Peak was 1920 (61)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#516
1904

Spellings of Leda

Leda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 22.7% against Leda's 0.05%.

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 Leda is used

Across 1910–2025, Leda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 302,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Leda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leda around the world

Where Leda 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2007
    #4,377
    in 2007
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Leda

People whose public names include Leda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leda. Linked forms have their own page here.

LadaLetaLidaLediaLedi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,225
Best rank ever
#516
1904
Peak year
1920
61 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,448
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Leda

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

NedaEdaJaedaSyedaVedaFreedaVaedaMedaRedaMakedaLeddyThedaSedaCledaAlmedaAledaFredaLedoraFriedaBedaOnedaZedaLavedaFleda

Names with a curve like Leda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EugenieJosefaZitaGlennLorenzaMelvinaGennieElizebethCelestaRettaDelfinaAugustine

Sibling names for Leda

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

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