Meaning not yet researched.
Leesa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #525 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #525 in 1956. No US babies were recorded with the name Leesa in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #525 in 1956.
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Leesa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #525 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 318 (1956).
Fewer than five US girls were named Leesa in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #525, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 318. For comparison, it was #18,003 in 2015 and #2,161 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leesa in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 4,124 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,439 babies named Leesa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6 US girls were named Leesa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 6.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880), Lesa (11,421 babies since 1880), Leisa (4,969 babies since 1880) and Lissa (3,979 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leesa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,154 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,003 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,068 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,706 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,223 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,594 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,358 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,244 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,094 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,793 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,366 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,050 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1968 | 147 | #841 | — | — |
| 1967 | 119 | #938 | — | — |
| 1966 | 122 | #914 | — | — |
| 1965 | 121 | #918 | — | — |
| 1964 | 127 | #937 | — | — |
| 1963 | 159 | #828 | — | — |
| 1962 | 133 | #920 | — | — |
| 1961 | 199 | #737 | — | — |
| 1960 | 197 | #721 | — | — |
| 1959 | 190 | #737 | — | — |
| 1958 | 201 | #698 | — | — |
| 1957 | 186 | #736 | — | — |
| 1956 | 318 | #525 | — | — |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,730 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).