# Lesa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lesa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,421 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12 / 11,409 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 26 | 4,055 |
| 1994 | 16 | 5,880 |
| 1995 | 19 | 5,139 |
| 1996 | 17 | 5,673 |
| 1997 | 10 | 8,747 |
| 1998 | 12 | 7,817 |
| 1999 | 12 | 8,011 |
| 2000 | 8 | 11,347 |
| 2001 | 5 | 16,834 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13,581 |
| 2007 | 6 | 16,699 |
| 2008 | 6 | 16,615 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,948 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,083 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,886 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | 4,408 |
| 1962 | 7 | 3,505 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.