girls:
11.4k births since 1915
#1473 (74th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1961
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
11.4k births since 1915
#2464 (68th percentile)
The name Lesa is the #2,464 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,420 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 68.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,473 (74.2% percentile) for all time with 11,408 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1961.
Lesa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Lesa is available in 71 out of the 104 years between 1915 and 2018 (71 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lesa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lesa reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 57.6% percentile (ranked #335) with 368 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 382 births per million (ranked 56.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
For boys, Lesa reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #656) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lesa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lesa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.9% confident that Lesa is pronounced as LEE-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-suh, at 43.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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