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Leisa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leisa has been given to 4,969 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1958, with 344 recorded.

Babies named Leisa, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leisa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leisa means

Leisa is a given name.

The naming story behind Leisa

Wikidata records Leisa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q84516521, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,969 girls were recorded with the name Leisa between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 344 in 1958; its best national rank was #523 in 1958.

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.

How common is Leisa?

Leisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leisa 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leisa was born before 1964 — so the typical Leisa is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,952
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (2,604).

Is Leisa 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 1958 (344)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#523
1958

Spellings of Leisa

Leisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 37.3% against Leisa's 0.19%.

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 Leisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Leisa was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 46,006 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 12,500
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 25,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 25,000

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

Leisa around the world

Where Leisa 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
    2009–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1975–1982
    #465
    in 1982
  • Ireland
    1979–1979
    #523
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1957–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leisa in other languages

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

LesaLaisaLiesaLesya

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

Leisa 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
#523
1958
Peak year
1958
344 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,969
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leisa

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

LeilahLeighaLeiahAnisaLeilanyLeishaLeidyBrisaLeinaLeiaLeighJulisaLeianaRisaJalisaLuisaEloisaLarisaLeilaLeiraRaisaLeighannLeiyaYulisa

Names with a curve like Leisa

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

LorriMigdaliaLauriTresaPenniGlynisTeressaTamieKrisCyndiGigiRoxane

Sibling names for Leisa

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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