Leisha
Leisha was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,708 among girls’ names; 2,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Leisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 36 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leisha?
#6,708 among girls’ names, 2025
Leisha rose from #12,480 in 2015 to #6,708 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 10.6 per million.
144 babies in 1961, the peak
Leisha peaked in 1961, when 144 girls were given it, #900 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,708 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,434 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,512 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,149 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,989 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,395 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,166 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,080 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,400 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,480 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,585 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,125 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,910 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,175 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,876 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,131 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,480 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,221 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,269 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,841 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,653 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,106 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,090 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,963 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,373 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,785 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,561 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,542 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,579 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,334 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,873 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,468 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,377 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,488 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,541 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,956 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,842 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,220 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,414 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,205 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,703 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,945 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,925 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,327 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,325 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,506 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,172 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,238 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,120 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,302 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,417 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,248 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,158 | 23.7 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,987 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,101 | 22.3 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,968 | 24.3 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,109 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,629 | 29.7 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,612 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,523 | 30.6 |
| 1964 | 71 | #1,337 | 37.5 |
| 1963 | 115 | #995 | 59.7 |
| 1962 | 118 | #990 | 60.0 |
| 1961 | 144 | #900 | 71.3 |
| 1960 | 142 | #871 | 70.2 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,544 | 24.7 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,073 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,728 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,649 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leisha, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,108 Americans ever recorded as Leisha. The median Leisha alive today is 51 years old; half are between 36 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,941 people named Leisha (1,939 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,883 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 567 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 603 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 157 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,814 babies since 1880, Leisha is the most given (44% 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 Leisha
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 Leisha and names like it
- Compare Leisha and LeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLeisha peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Leisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.