Girls' name · since 2018
Leika
Leika has 11 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #53,543 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,589 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 11
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
11 babies have been named Leika since 2018, making it today's #14589 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leika has been recorded 11 times among girls since 2018, currently ranked #14589 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #53,543 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,589 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 11 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leika ranks #53,543 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,589 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 11 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #53,543 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,589 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 11
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Leika's 11 recorded births place it above 24.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Leika compares
11 4th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Leika's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Leika | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 11 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Leika's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Leika's SSA record in two at 2025 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Leika popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Leika by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (6 births, 55% of the file).
2020s was Leika's strongest decade.
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Leika births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 6 births (55% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Leika: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Leika draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.