Leshay
Leshay was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 172 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leshay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leshay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,966, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1995, the peak
Leshay peaked in 1995, when 14 girls were given it, #6,464 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #18,966 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,378 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,664 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,247 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,568 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,389 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,091 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,379 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,464 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,505 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #10,137 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,157 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,011 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,120 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,779 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,963 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,621 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,101 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,039 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,374 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,680 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,336 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,138 | 3.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,099 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leshay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leshay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leshay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leshay, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Leshay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 30 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Leshay (176 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 169 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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, Leshay is the sixth most given (3.6% 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 Leshay
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 Leshay and names like it
- Compare Leshay and LeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLeshay peaked in 1995.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Leshay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Leshay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.