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Lesia

Girls' name

To defend + man, through Olesya

Lesia has been given to 3,180 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 1965, with 280 recorded.

Babies named Lesia, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lesia: meaning, origin, and history

To defend + man, through Olesya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lesia means

Lesia belongs to the name family reached through Lesia → Olesya → Aleksandra → Алекса́ндра. Its meaning is “to defend + man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lesia is used in English.

Lesia comes through Ukrainian Леся.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Olesya, Aleksandra and Алекса́ндра.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,180 girls were recorded with the name Lesia between 1948 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 280 in 1965; its best national rank was #574 in 1965.

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 Lesia?

Lesia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lesia 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lesia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lesias were born

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

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
65.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.91%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,174
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1960s — 65.8% of all recorded uses (2,094).

Is Lesia 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 1965 (280)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#574
1965

Spellings of Lesia

Lesia is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 35.6% against Lesia's 0.12%.

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 Lesia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lesia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 60,426 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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

Lesia around the world

Where Lesia 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
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1982–2025
    #2,296
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1953–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lesia

People whose public names include Lesia, 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.

Lesia in other languages

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

LesaLisiaLessiaLesyaOleksandraLesia/Lesya

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

Lesia 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
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Best rank ever
#574
1965
Peak year
1965
280 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
3,180
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lesia

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

LesliTasiaLeslyAysiaDasiaKasiaCesiaAlisiaLeslyeStasiaElysiaLeshaTyasiaCassiaLesleeDeasiaElisiaNyasiaRosiaMyasiaKeasiaAlasiaKesiaLesta

Names with a curve like Lesia

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

DeneenGlynisZinaTamieLorriPenniMachelleTondaLoriannJeanmarieDeedeeKris

Sibling names for Lesia

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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