Leatha
Leatha was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 6,023 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Leatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 58 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leatha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,191, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
138 babies in 1916, the peak
Leatha peaked in 1916, when 138 girls were given it, #571 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #14,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,886 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,235 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,572 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #8,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,976 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,715 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,311 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,383 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,427 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,518 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,374 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,924 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,371 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,487 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,517 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,032 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,860 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,740 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,411 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 82 | #1,191 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,273 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,483 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 73 | #1,289 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 69 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,213 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 69 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 79 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 72 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 70 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 67 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 67 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 66 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 77 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 76 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 66 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 70 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 66 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 77 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 68 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 87 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 82 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 75 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 88 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 60 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 80 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 79 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 96 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 99 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 102 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 108 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 100 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 100 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 134 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 118 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 107 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 126 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 113 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 138 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 118 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 76 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 83 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 84 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 53 | #589 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 61 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 48 | #557 | 0.14 |
| 1908 | 46 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 49 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1906 | 41 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1905 | 56 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 35 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 50 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1902 | 35 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 38 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 67 | #409 | 0.22 |
| 1899 | 28 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 37 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 41 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1896 | 41 | #455 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 34 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1894 | 37 | #460 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 32 | #481 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 21 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 17 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 29 | #488 | 0.15 |
| 1889 | 26 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 11 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 20 | #504 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 11 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 10 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 10 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 11 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 5 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 11 | #522 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 6 | #798 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leatha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leatha, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 34% of the 6,023 Americans ever recorded as Leatha. The median Leatha alive today is 67 years old; half are between 58 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,911 people named Leatha (1,906 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 361 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 993 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 514 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 159 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Leatha born?
The states with the most babies named Leatha are Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 257 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 249 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 217 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 203 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 136 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 127 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 96 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 92 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 88 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Leatha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leatha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leatha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,787 babies since 1880, Leatha is the second most given (22% of them).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leatha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leatha and names like it
- Compare Leatha and LethaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLeatha peaked in 1916.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leatha since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Leatha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leatha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.