Lea

What Lea means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lea yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #739 in 2015 to #848 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lea?

US: Falling: down from #739 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #549 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1970, when 593 girls got the name (#396 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,007 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,020 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (0.56 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.51 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.39 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lea is #848 in the US and #622 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lea were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Leah3,880 US · 273 E&W
• Lia1,526 US · 93 E&W
• Leia1,033 US · 95 E&W
• Liah169 US · 6 E&W
• Lua90 US · 20 E&W
• Laia85 US · 5 E&W
• Leiah33 US
• Leo23 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lea

Girls

• Elise#223Editor’s note Down from #174 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US
• Daniella#468Form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Danna#394“of Anna”^*
• Jordyn#371Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #136 in 2015, #371 in 2025
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Emanuel#574Spanish, meaning “God is with us”^*
• Jeremiah#88“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Issac#915Variant of Isaac, meaning “he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Eli#104“ascent”^*
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lea’s. Rank is US 2025.