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Leisha

#6,708 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leisha has been given to 2,108 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #6,708 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Leisha, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leisha means

Leisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Leisha

Wikidata records Leisha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q27688933, 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, 2,108 girls were recorded with the name Leisha between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1961; its best national rank was #871 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,395 in 2020 to #6,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,480 in 2015 to #6,708 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.

How common is Leisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,708
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leisha 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leisha was born before 1974 — so the typical Leisha is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,108
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (816).

Is Leisha 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
−2,274
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,687
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,772
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 1961 (144)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#871
1960

Spellings of Leisha

Leisha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 63.3% against Leisha's 0.14%.

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 Leisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Leisha was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 252,909 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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

Leisha around the world

Where Leisha 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1993–2012
    #665
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1990–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1947–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leisha

People whose public names include Leisha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,687
Best rank ever
#871
1960
Peak year
1961
144 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,108
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Leisha

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

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Names with a curve like Leisha

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

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Sibling names for Leisha

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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