Lesia

Where Lesia comes from

From Ukrainian Леся (Lesja)
— Wiktionary's entry for Lesia
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #4,651 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #572
    280 babies named Lesia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #898.
  4. 1987
    Lesia Vasylenko born
    Ukrainian politician
  5. 1989
    Lesia Tsurenko born
    Ukrainian female tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Olesya of Russian and Ukrainian usage.
  • A female given name of Ukrainian usage.
Namesakes
  • Lesia Tsurenko · Ukrainian female tennis player, born 1989
  • Lesia Vasylenko · Ukrainian politician, born 1987
  • Lesia Dychko · Soviet and Ukrainian composer, music educator, public figure, born 1939
  • Lesia Romanchuk · Ukrainian physician, born 1955
  • Lesia L. Crumpton-Young · American engineer and academic administrator

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.