Fewer than five US girls were named Leisa in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #523, reached in 1958. That year also had the most girls given the name: 344. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,155 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leisa in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 4,969 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,604 babies named Leisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US girls were named Leisa; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lesa (11,421 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880), Liza (17,655 babies since 1880) and Leesa (4,124 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.