Lesha
Lesha was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 1,053 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,791, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
89 babies in 1960, the peak
Lesha peaked in 1960, when 89 girls were given it, #1,156 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #15,791 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,366 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,115 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,450 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,900 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,291 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,807 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,550 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,604 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,241 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 22 | #4,098 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,978 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,447 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,875 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,471 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,389 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,107 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,299 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,837 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,966 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,057 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,695 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,321 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,711 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,375 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,965 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,861 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,440 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,673 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,623 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,223 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,405 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,076 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,841 | 22.1 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,092 | 17.4 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,419 | 32.2 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,569 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,187 | 43.1 |
| 1960 | 89 | #1,156 | 44.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,482 | 4.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,984 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 963 Americans named Lesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 44 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,004 people named Lesha (997 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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, Lesha is the second most given (22% 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 Lesha
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 Lesha and names like it
- Compare Lesha and LeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLesha peaked in 1960.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Lesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.