Leira
Leira was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,644 among girls’ names; 436 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leira?
#5,644 among girls’ names, 2025
Leira rose from #8,251 in 2015 to #5,644 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 13.7 per million.
28 babies in 2017, the peak
Leira peaked in 2017, when 28 girls were given it, #4,877 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,644 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,292 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,812 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,883 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,860 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,410 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,241 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,700 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,877 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,090 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,251 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,605 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,380 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,649 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,022 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,716 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,699 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,870 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,316 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,653 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,840 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,275 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,822 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,651 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,382 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,653 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,524 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leira, and how old are they?
An estimated 433 Americans named Leira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Leira (489 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,781 babies since 1880, Leira is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 206 babies (11%), the second most given that year.
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 Leira
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.
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