Lesa
Lesa was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 11,421 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,960 Americans named Lesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 57 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,881, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
778 babies in 1962, the peak
Lesa peaked in 1962, when 778 babies were given it (771 girls, #340 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,881 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,077 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,940 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,609 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,575 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,005 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,811 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | #8,742 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,668 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,134 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,874 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,050 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,714 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,629 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,344 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,374 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,363 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,166 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,892 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,797 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,508 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,254 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 104 | #1,207 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 109 | #1,155 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 112 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 129 | #967 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 144 | #891 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 185 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 188 | #745 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 270 | #624 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 350 | #541 | 0.20 |
| 1969 | 368 | #508 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 454 | #449 | 0.28 |
| 1967 | 542 | #391 | 0.33 |
| 1966 | 616 | #366 | 0.36 |
| 1965 | 699 | #345 | 0.40 |
| 1964 | 683 | #364 | 0.36 |
| 1963 | 726 | #351 | 0.38 |
| 1962 | 771 | #340 | 0.39 |
| 1961 | 765 | #343 | 0.38 |
| 1960 | 686 | #366 | 0.34 |
| 1959 | 532 | #409 | 0.26 |
| 1958 | 587 | #378 | 0.29 |
| 1957 | 424 | #459 | 0.21 |
| 1956 | 304 | #534 | 0.15 |
| 1955 | 219 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 156 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 98 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 67 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,273 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,055 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,650 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lesa has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 71 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lesa, and how old are they?
9,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 11,421 Americans ever recorded as Lesa. The median Lesa alive today is 62 years old; half are between 57 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 10,440 people named Lesa (10,426 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,387 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 619 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 71 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Lesa born?
The states with the most babies named Lesa are Texas, California and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,009 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 660 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 577 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 523 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Missouri | 516 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 481 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 463 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 415 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 370 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 363 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Lesa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lesa is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1915 it was given 2.3 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 Lesa 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 25,971 babies since 1880, Lesa 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 Lesa
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 Lesa and names like it
- Compare Lesa and LeisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLesa peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lesa since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Lesa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lesa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.