first name
LEISA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,595 people named Leisa, 81% reported their origin as White, 10.4% as Black and 3.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Leisa peaked in 1958, when 344 babies got the name.
At least 4,969 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Leisa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,083. The largest share of babies named Leisa, 55%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Leisa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Leisa has been most common in Utah (3.7×), Alabama (2.6×), and Kentucky (2.3×), and least common in New York (0.41×).
3,260 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Leisa, most common first.
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