Leara
Leara was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 250 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,002, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1922, the peak
Leara peaked in 1922, when 13 girls were given it, #2,687 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #13,002 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,201 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,066 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,174 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,992 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,720 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,719 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,848 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,110 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,026 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,699 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,264 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,998 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,836 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,646 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,558 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,190 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,976 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,030 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,732 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,742 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,517 | 2.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,702 | 2.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,038 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,102 | 5.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,925 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,343 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,275 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,711 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,848 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,701 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,687 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,250 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,642 | 7.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,801 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,635 | 5.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,870 | 19.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leara, and how old are they?
An estimated 161 Americans named Leara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 242 people named Leara (241 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,781 babies since 1880, Leara is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 206 babies recorded by SSA was a Leara (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Leara and names like it
- Compare Leara and LeoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeara peaked in 1922.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Leara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.