Leisha

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births

Peak · girls
1960 · 142 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,108
since 1956

Leisha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Leisha has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956peak #870, 1960girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,54617
2024#4,38732
2023#4,45431
2022#6,98416
2021#9,56210
2020#13,4536
2019#9,73610
2018#15,6825
2017#9,94310
2016—
2015#11,8358
2014#11,9318
2013#16,5475
2012#10,42910
2011#13,3477
2010#10,45110
2009#10,67910
2008#10,08411
2007#11,6309
2006#15,1526
2005#9,45211
2004#7,39115
2003#9,67110
2002#7,81613
2001#5,82219
2000#9,8749
1999#14,4115
1998#6,36015
1997#7,28312
1996#6,39214
1995#5,22118
1994#5,71316
1993#4,39323
1992#3,34333
1991#3,44331
1990#2,52347
1989#2,93137
1988#3,80524
1987#3,16929
1986#3,36026
1985#3,17028
1984#2,67734
1983#2,91029
1982#2,90131
1981#2,30543
1980#2,30842
1979#2,47737
1978#2,15943
1977#2,21641
1976#2,09941
1975#2,27836
1974#2,39632
1973#2,22335
1972#2,13536
1971#1,96643
1970#2,08139
1969#1,95541
1968#2,09133
1967#1,61749
1966#1,60049
1965#1,51654
1964#1,33471
1963#993115
1962#985118
1961#899144
1960#870142
1959#1,53750
1958#3,92510
1957#4,5368
1956#5,3256
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five girls were named Leisha! It came in at #5,325, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2016, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Leisha is popular in 1956

No state had 5 or more girls named Leisha in 1956, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Leisha
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 2,159 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #6,546)
  • 6,907 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #6,546)
  • 5,289 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #6,546)
  • Biggest jump: 667 spots in 1960 (#1,537 → #870)
  • Biggest drop: 341 spots in 1964 (#993 → #1,334)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 1960 at #870 (142 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1960–1963
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,017
  • Highest: 1 in 14,017 girls born in 1961 were named Leisha (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #870 in 1960, was only 1 in 14,239 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 38.7% of all girls named Leisha (816) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s74#1,537 (1959)#3,831
1960s816#870 (1960)#1,386
1970s383#1,966 (1971)#2,203
1980s323#2,305 (1981)#2,954
1990s214#2,523 (1990)#5,908
2000s113#5,822 (2001)#9,757
2010s73#9,736 (2019)#12,211
2020s112#4,387 (2024)#7,564

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Leisha in 1956

girls
#5,325
6 births · 1 in 334,617 girls

Top girls' names in 1956

  1. #1Mary61,741
  2. #2Debra48,324
  3. #3Linda48,084
  4. #4Deborah47,834
  5. #5Susan46,558
  6. #6Patricia43,329
  7. #7Karen40,052
  8. #8Cynthia32,339
  9. #9Barbara32,302
  10. #10Donna29,852
  11. #5,325Leisha6
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 334,617 of them was named Leisha, which outranked 22.7% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Leisha
  1. #4,837Zane7
  2. #4,837Zanetta7
  3. #4,837Zeola7
  4. #5,325Leisha6
  5. #5,325Adda6
  6. #5,325Al6
  7. #5,325Alacia6
  8. #5,952Adelene5
  9. #5,952Adelmira5
  10. #5,952Adlene5

Tied with 626 names at #5,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1955
Risers
  1. ↑ 993Sheena#1,839 → #846
  2. ↑ 770Glendora#1,733 → #963
  3. ↑ 684Leesa#1,209 → #525
  4. ↑ 543Marisa#1,074 → #531
  5. ↑ 537Dani#1,383 → #846
Fallers
  1. ↓ 513Sheilah#663 → #1,176
  2. ↓ 481Jeryl#768 → #1,249
  3. ↓ 344Jacalyn#496 → #840
  4. ↓ 325Roni#536 → #861
  5. ↓ 314Florine#984 → #1,298

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1956 →