Lesa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lesa

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,409 babies named Lesa between 1915 and 2018, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lesa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 771 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lesa performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 6,310 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lesa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,009 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Lesa in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lesa 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 11,409 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.