first name
LEA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 30,568 people named Lea, 66.2% reported their origin as White, 14% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lea peaked in 1970, when 600 babies got the name.
At least 34,468 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Lea by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #814. The largest share of babies named Lea, 21.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Lea is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lea has been most common in Hawaii (1.5×), California (1.5×), and Florida (1.4×), and least common in South Carolina (0.29×).
27,715 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Lea
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lea, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Lea ranks #4,125 of 156,621, with 8,351 people. See Lea as a last name
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