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Leesa vs Leetta

American parents have registered 4,124 Leesas since 1880, against 519 Leettas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leesa against Leetta, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leesa Leetta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Leesa for 63 years and Leetta for 33 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Leesa Leetta
Total US births 4,124519
Most in one year 31817
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,700260
Median age today 5969
Peak year 19561938
Best rank 525th girls1,945th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19461912
Girls / boys 4,124 / 0519 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leettas alive today are over 69; half the Leesas are over 59. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leesa and Leetta.