Leire
Leire is a girl's name that peaked in 2018, when it was the 7,409th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 90 Leires are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leire
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 87
- Estimated living today
- 90
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 7,409th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 2012
How old the living Leires are
born that year still alive today
Of the 87 babies given the name since 2012, about 90 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leires
- Leire Olaberria (born 1977)Olympic cyclist
- Leire Pajín (born 1976)Spanish politician
- Leire Martínez (born 1979)Spanish recording artist and singer
People named Leire with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Leire peaked:
Leire elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Leire | 19,238 | 31st |
| France girls | Leire | 185 | 2,858th |
| England and Wales girls | Leire | 3 | 5,730th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leire: rank by region
In 2014, Leire was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | Leire | 10 | 35 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Leire lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 29,832 women called Leire were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Leire | 3,689 | 9.843 | 8 |
| Bizkaia | Leire | 5,316 | 8.826 | 9 |
| Araba/Álava | Leire | 1,258 | 7.249 | 10 |
| Navarra | Leire | 1,474 | 4.272 | 35 |
| Rioja, La | Leire | 258 | 1.558 | 125 |
| Burgos | Leire | 259 | 1.429 | 144 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Leire against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.