Girls' name · since 2012
Leire
87 babies named Leire in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,709 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,349 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2012
- 2010s
- peak decade
Leire currently ranks #9349 among girls' names in America, with 87 babies recorded since 2012.
Leire has 87 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9349 as of the latest data, more common than 46% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #28,709 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,349 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 87 born since 2012
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leire ranks #28,709 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,349 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 87 born since 2012, peaking in the 2010s.
- #28,709 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,349 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2012
- 2010s
- peak decade
Leire's 87 recorded births place it above 60.23% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Leire compares
87 23rd 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
Leire's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Leire | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 87 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Leire's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Leire's full recorded timeline at 2020, 44% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 56% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2012, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2018 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Leire popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Leire by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (49 births, 56% of the file).
2010s was Leire's strongest decade.
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Leire births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
49 births
- 2020s
2020s
38 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 49 births (56% of all-time use).
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What to do with Leire's data
- Leire's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (49 total births) through the 2020s (38) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2012–2025 (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 Leire 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.