Leita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leita has been given to 720 babies in the U.S. since 1893. 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 1916, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Leita, 2002
1 in 747,000
Leita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leita?
Leita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leita was born before 1932 — so the typical Leita is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 17.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 220
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (125).
Is Leita 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 1916 (20)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.2% average annual change
Spellings of Leita
Leita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 36.3% against Leita's 0.03%.
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 Leita is used
Across 1910–2025, Leita was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Leita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leita around the world
Where Leita 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 Australia2001–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Leita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.