Leira

#5,644 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Leira has been given to 436 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,644 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Leira, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Leira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,644
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leira 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leira was born before 2014 — so the typical Leira is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
436
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (208).

Is Leira 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
+3,648
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−234
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,607
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2017 (28)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,877
2017

Spellings of Leira

Leira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 25.1% against Leira'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 Leira is used

Across 1910–2025, Leira was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 841,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Leira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leira around the world

Where Leira 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
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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

Leira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,644
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 234
Best rank ever
#4,877
2017
Peak year
2017
28 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
436
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Leira

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

Sibling names for Leira

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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