Lesia
Lesia was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 3,180 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,790 Americans named Lesia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 58 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lesia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lesia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lesia is “a diminutive of the female given name Olesya of Russian and Ukrainian usage.”
Also “a female given name of Ukrainian usage.”
From Ukrainian Леся (Lesja)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lesia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,340, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
280 babies in 1965, the peak
Lesia peaked in 1965, when 280 girls were given it, #574 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,340 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,381 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,817 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,238 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,729 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 11 | #6,277 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,393 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,032 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,749 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,634 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,739 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,467 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,161 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,326 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,588 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,372 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,557 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,582 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,420 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,246 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 123 | #967 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 132 | #902 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 150 | #813 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 220 | #649 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 280 | #574 | 0.16 |
| 1964 | 237 | #665 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 251 | #637 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 223 | #690 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 276 | #607 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 202 | #717 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 122 | #953 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 87 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 88 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,788 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,990 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,983 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lesia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lesia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lesia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lesia, and how old are they?
2,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,180 Americans ever recorded as Lesia. The median Lesia alive today is 62 years old; half are between 58 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 2,979 people named Lesia (2,978 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,903 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Lesia born?
The states with the most babies named Lesia are Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 204 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Alabama | 194 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Georgia | 187 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 149 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 143 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 134 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Arkansas | 96 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Louisiana | 90 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 81 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Lesia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lesia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1948 it was given 4.6 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 Lesia 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 40,944 babies since 1880, Lesia is the fifth most given (7.8% 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 Lesia
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 Lesia and names like it
- Compare Lesia and LessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLesia peaked in 1965.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lesia since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Lesia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Lesia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lesia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.