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Lesa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lesa has been given to 11,421 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1962, with 771 recorded.

Babies named Lesa, 2018

1 in 586,000

Lesa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lesa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lesa means

Lesa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lesa is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,409 girls were recorded with the name Lesa between 1915 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 771 in 1962; its best national rank was #340 in 1962.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Lesa between 1961 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,504 in 1962.

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 Lesa?

Lesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lesa 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lesas were born

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

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
55.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
11,276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 55.3% of all recorded uses (6,310).

Is Lesa 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (771)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#340
1962

Spellings of Lesa

Lesa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.0% against Lesa's 0.27%.

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 Lesa is used

Across 1910–2025, Lesa was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 16,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 6,667
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 6,667
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 6,667
  4. 4Missouri1 in 7,143
  5. 5Utah1 in 7,143
  6. 6Kansas1 in 7,692
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 7,692
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 7,692

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

Lesa around the world

Where Lesa 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.

  • Scotland
    1975–1987
    #582
    in 1987
  • Ireland
    1984–1984
    #516
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1950–1970
    #707
    in 1970

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

Lesa in other languages

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

LisaLeisaLesiaLiesaLesya

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

Lesa 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
#340
1962
Peak year
1962
771 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
11,409
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,504
1962
Peak year
1962
7 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lesa

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

LeslyLesliLesleyLessieLesiaVanesaLesleeMesaTresaLeesaLeslyeLeshaTesaLeslieReesaAneesaLestaLesterResaAnesaAleesaThresaLesslyAlesa

Names with a curve like Lesa

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

LauriKrisLorriLorrieDanetteMarybethChrisDeannTamelaLorieSuzetteRonda

Sibling names for Lesa

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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