Leesa
Leesa was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 4,124 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,650 Americans named Leesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 47 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,149, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
318 babies in 1956, the peak
Leesa peaked in 1956, when 318 girls were given it, #524 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,149 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,997 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,062 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,700 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,218 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,588 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,352 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,237 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,088 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,786 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 17 | #6,359 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,046 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,764 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,256 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,823 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,397 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,907 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,238 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,346 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,506 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,515 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,443 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,059 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,396 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,925 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,896 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,105 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,936 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,739 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,580 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,815 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,214 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,330 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,219 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,015 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 147 | #841 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 119 | #938 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 122 | #914 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 121 | #918 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 127 | #937 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 159 | #828 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 133 | #920 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 199 | #737 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 197 | #721 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 190 | #737 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 201 | #697 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 186 | #735 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 318 | #524 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,728 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leesa, and how old are they?
3,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 4,124 Americans ever recorded as Leesa. The median Leesa alive today is 60 years old; half are between 47 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 3,931 people named Leesa (3,928 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 648 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 155 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16 |
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 Leesa born?
The states with the most babies named Leesa are California, Texas and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 327 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 289 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 199 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 146 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 89 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 61 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Leesa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leesa is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1946 it was given 1.3 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 Leesa 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 26,074 babies since 1880, Leesa is the third most given (16% 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 Leesa
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 Leesa and names like it
- Compare Leesa and LesaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLeesa peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leesa since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Leesa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leesa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.