Leshia
Leshia was last recorded in 1992, when 7 babies were given it; 517 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,158, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1960, the peak
Leshia peaked in 1960, when 76 girls were given it, #1,257 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #11,158 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,780 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,844 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,375 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,454 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,972 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,132 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,812 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,118 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,695 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 11 | #5,785 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,516 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,748 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,221 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,882 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,820 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,282 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,341 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,152 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,313 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,957 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,568 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,987 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,651 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,387 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,609 | 25.9 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,484 | 29.0 |
| 1961 | 65 | #1,390 | 32.2 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,257 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leshia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leshia, and how old are they?
An estimated 462 Americans named Leshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 52 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Leshia (472 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 478 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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, Leshia is the third most given (11% 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 Leshia
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 Leshia and names like it
- Compare Leshia and LeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLeshia peaked in 1960.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leshia since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Leshia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leshia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.