Lehua

#10,545 in 2025Girls' name

Ohia flower

Lehua has been given to 319 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #10,545 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Lehua, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lehua: meaning, origin, and history

Ohia flower

Hawaiian

What Lehua means

Lehua means “ohia flower”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lehua is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Lehua is pronounced /leˈhu.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 319 girls were recorded with the name Lehua between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1977; its best national rank was #4,799 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,962 in 2020 to #10,545 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,999 in 2015 to #10,545 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 Lehua?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,545; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lehua 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lehua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lehuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lehua was born before 1993 — so the typical Lehua is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 45.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 319; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Lehua 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: −583; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +7,454; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.80×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 64.3%; Peak was 1977 (14)
Years since peak: 48; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,799; 1977

Spellings of Lehua

Lehua is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 24.2% against Lehua's 0.05%.

Lena24.2%146,479
Leona18.7%113,330
Leila9.1%55,436
Lela7.1%43,005
Lea5.6%33,848
Leola4.6%28,129
Letha3.2%19,137
Leia3.1%18,778

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 Lehua is used

Across 1910–2025, Lehua was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 4,811 across all states with data.

2121 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 4,762

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

Lehua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,545
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 583
Best rank ever: #4,799; 1977
Peak year: 1977; 14 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 319
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Lehua

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

Lehlani Leha Toshua Lehna Lehana Lehani Lehia Tashua Lehanna Lehla Lehiwa Chua Joshua Shua Jeshua Lehuanani Natashua Latashua

Sibling names for Lehua

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

Charissa Melonie Karie Karrie Mandi Malissa Kesha Cari

For a brother

Torrey Jerod Shon Edwardo Andrea Scot Kelley Thad

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