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Leisa

Leisa is a girl's name that peaked in 1958, when it was the 523rd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 4,400 Leisas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Leisa

By the numbers

Total US births
4,969
Estimated living today
4,400
Median age today
61
Peak year
1958
Best rank
523rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1948

How old the living Leisas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,969 babies given the name since 1948, about 4,400 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 50 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 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.

Where Leisa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Leisa is most concentrated in Utah (3.7×), Alabama (2.6×), Kentucky (2.3×), Indiana (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1958

The most popular girls’ names the year Leisa peaked:

All the names of 1958

Leisa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Scotland girls Leisa 27 369th
England and Wales girls Leisa 9 5,493rd
Ireland girls Leisa 3 523rd

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.

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Leisa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.