Leasha — girls' name
309 babies named Leasha in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1962. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Leasha was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Leasha in 1962 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Leasha
The Social Security Administration has registered 309 babies named Leasha between 1960 and 1999, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leasha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Leasha performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 111 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Leasha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Leasha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Leasha 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 309 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.
Leasha at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Leasha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1960
- Peak year (1962)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
309 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1962 with 20 births in a single year.
Leasha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 111 births that decade — 36% of Leasha's all-time total
Leasha decade highlights
- Peak decade 111 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Leasha's strongest decade
111 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Leasha by state
Where Leasha concentrates geographically — total births since 1960
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 309 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1960–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.