Lea — #834 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lea

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,520 babies named Lea between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lea currently holds the #834 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 593 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lea performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 4,493 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lea in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 33,520 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.