Leotha — unisex name

What the Data Says About Leotha

The Social Security Administration has registered 367 babies named Leotha between 1900 and 1964, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leotha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Leotha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 119 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leotha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 112 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Leotha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 63 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Leotha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leotha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 367 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.