Leba
Leba was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,001 among girls’ names; 217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leba?
#7,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Leba rose from #17,993 in 2015 to #7,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 10.0 per million.
20 babies in 2020, the peak
Leba peaked in 2020, when 20 girls were given it, #5,985 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,001 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,541 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,017 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,861 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,297 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,985 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,202 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,054 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,526 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,993 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,517 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,653 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,115 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,646 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,149 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,312 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,823 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,030 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,646 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,234 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,465 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,093 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,500 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leba, and how old are they?
An estimated 215 Americans named Leba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 245 people named Leba (237 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 693 babies since 1880, Leba is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 60 babies (27%), again the second most given.
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 Leba
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 Leba and names like it
- Compare Leba and LeebaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeba peaked in 2020.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leba since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Leba.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leba alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.