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Leida

Girls' name

To find, discover

Leida has been given to 497 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1976, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Leida, 2020

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leida: meaning, origin, and history

To find, discover

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leida means

Leida means “to find, discover”, associated with leidma.

Origin, language, and formation

Leida is used in Estonian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 497 girls were recorded with the name Leida between 1912 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,912 in 1912.

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 Leida?

Leida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 202,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leida 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 2020 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 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leida was born before 1972 — so the typical Leida is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
418
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Leida 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 1976 (16)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,912
1912

Spellings of Leida

Leida is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 35.2% against Leida's 0.01%.

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 Leida is used

Across 1910–2025, Leida was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 648,163 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 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. Leida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leida around the world

Where Leida 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 Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leida 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
#1,912
1912
Peak year
1976
16 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
497
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leida

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

LeiraLeiyaLeinaLeidyLeianiLeiahLeiliLeiloniKaidaLeitaLeianaLeilanaLeireLeiVaidaLeiannaLeighlaFraidaSaidaLeishaLeilanniLeilyLeithaNaida

Sibling names for Leida

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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