Leota
Leota was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 10,447 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Leota and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 67 and 87.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leota by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leota?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,499, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
359 babies in 1918, the peak
Leota peaked in 1918, when 359 girls were given it, #344 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,499 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,420 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,718 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,503 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,970 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,275 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,425 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,939 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,684 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,831 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,184 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,487 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,295 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,704 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,795 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,123 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,344 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,781 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 32 | #2,003 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,053 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 63 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 74 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 82 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 74 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 87 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 104 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 96 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 117 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 133 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 126 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 140 | #583 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 162 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 157 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1935 | 136 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 153 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 164 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1932 | 190 | #479 | 0.18 |
| 1931 | 193 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1930 | 201 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1929 | 205 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 225 | #459 | 0.20 |
| 1927 | 240 | #447 | 0.20 |
| 1926 | 244 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1925 | 281 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1924 | 309 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1923 | 266 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1922 | 281 | #392 | 0.23 |
| 1921 | 340 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1920 | 340 | #355 | 0.28 |
| 1919 | 311 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1918 | 359 | #344 | 0.31 |
| 1917 | 314 | #353 | 0.29 |
| 1916 | 341 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1915 | 312 | #336 | 0.32 |
| 1914 | 249 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1913 | 207 | #335 | 0.33 |
| 1912 | 156 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1911 | 121 | #366 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 108 | #377 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 99 | #370 | 0.29 |
| 1908 | 99 | #362 | 0.30 |
| 1907 | 79 | #400 | 0.25 |
| 1906 | 87 | #360 | 0.29 |
| 1905 | 96 | #347 | 0.33 |
| 1904 | 108 | #312 | 0.39 |
| 1903 | 82 | #352 | 0.31 |
| 1902 | 74 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1901 | 74 | #353 | 0.31 |
| 1900 | 99 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1899 | 77 | #341 | 0.33 |
| 1898 | 99 | #315 | 0.38 |
| 1897 | 71 | #349 | 0.30 |
| 1896 | 96 | #298 | 0.40 |
| 1895 | 66 | #346 | 0.28 |
| 1894 | 60 | #363 | 0.27 |
| 1893 | 71 | #320 | 0.33 |
| 1892 | 71 | #321 | 0.33 |
| 1891 | 59 | #326 | 0.32 |
| 1890 | 58 | #334 | 0.30 |
| 1889 | 51 | #349 | 0.29 |
| 1888 | 56 | #321 | 0.31 |
| 1887 | 43 | #327 | 0.29 |
| 1886 | 39 | #342 | 0.27 |
| 1885 | 42 | #315 | 0.32 |
| 1884 | 39 | #318 | 0.30 |
| 1883 | 25 | #368 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 21 | #393 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 24 | #332 | 0.26 |
| 1880 | 30 | #286 | 0.33 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leota a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leota has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leota: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leota, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 14% of the 10,447 Americans ever recorded as Leota. The median Leota alive today is 79 years old; half are between 67 and 87.
The 2020 Census counted 2,037 people named Leota (2,023 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 661 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 547 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 32 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Leota born?
The states with the most babies named Leota are Oklahoma, Missouri and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 723 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Missouri | 598 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 537 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 531 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kansas | 474 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Iowa | 466 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Michigan | 412 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 331 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| West Virginia | 323 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Indiana | 296 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Leota is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leota is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 4.0 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 Leota 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 30,156 babies since 1880, Leota is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 none of their 211 babies recorded by SSA was a Leota (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Leota
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 Leota and names like it
- Compare Leota and LetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLeota peaked in 1918.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leota since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Leota.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Leota alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with LMost given first.