How rare is the name Lesa?

10,440 people in the United States have the first name Lesa, about 1 in 28,930. It ranks #2,395 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LESA

#2,395

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,440
About
1 in 28,930
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,440 people named Lesa, 82.7% reported their origin as White, 10.1% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lesa peaked in 1962, when 778 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152018
Peak year
1962
Births that year
778
In 2018
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,421 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lesa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #673. The largest share of babies named Lesa, 54.2%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#11,6155
1920s#13,0426
1930s#11,9535
1940s#4,641117
1950s#1,0352,472
1960s#6736,322
1970s#1,4451,693
1980s#3,212547
1990s#7,952205
2000s#28,38132
2010s#35,46317
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–450.4%
Baby boom 1946–6454.2%
Generation X 1965–8039%
Millennials 1981–965.6%
Generation Z 1997–120.6%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lesa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lesa has been most common in Arkansas (2.6×), Tennessee (2.6×), and Oklahoma (2.6×), and least common in New Jersey (0.12×).

9,301 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 Lesa

#2,393 Kolby · 10,460#2,394 Atticus · 10,453#2,396 Lakeisha · 10,409#2,397 Russel · 10,399

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lesa, most common first.

#3,371 Les · 6,284#4,174 Leisa · 4,595#4,655 Leesa · 3,931#5,671 Lesia · 2,979#9,560 Lexa · 1,445#12,407 Lesha · 1,004#13,803 Leasa · 867#19,075 Lesya · 560

Also a last name

As a last name, Lesa ranks #103,857 of 156,621, with 184 people. See Lesa as a last name

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