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Leea

Girls' name

(wild) cow, through Lea

Leea has been given to 678 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 2000, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Leea, 2022

1 in 564,000

Leea over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leea: meaning, origin, and history

(wild) cow, through Lea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leea means

Leea belongs to the name family reached through Leea → Lea. Its meaning is “(wild) cow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leea is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lea.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Leea is pronounced /ˈleː.ɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 678 girls were recorded with the name Leea between 1961 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,080 in 1965.

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.

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How common is Leea?

Leea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leea 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leeas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leea was born before 1996 — so the typical Leea is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
678
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Leea 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (24)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,080
1965

Spellings of Leea

Leea is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 25.1% against Leea's 0.02%.

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 Leea is used

Across 1910–2025, Leea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Leea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leea around the world

Where Leea 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
    2005–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,503
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1960–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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

Leea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,080
1965
Peak year
2000
24 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
678
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leea

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

LeenLeebaLeeahLeeanaLeelahLeeyahAleeaLeetaLeezaLeeyaLeelaLeenahLeenaLeettaLeelooLeeshaLeeluLeeonaLeeanneLeesaBreeaLeeannaLeeanLeelynn

Sibling names for Leea

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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