How Many People Are Named Lesia?

2,808

people named Lesia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 121,718 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,180 babies named Lesia in Social Security records from 1948 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,399

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,023

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Peak Year

1965

280 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Short form of ALESIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lesia in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Lesia alive today is about 60 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 64 in 2025.

Under 30 12
0.4%
30 to 59 1,107
39.4%
60 and over 1,689
60.1%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Lesia first appears in the records in 1948 and was given most often in 1965, to 280 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.

Babies given the name each year, 1948 to 2017

πŸ† Rank History

Lesia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #574, in 1965.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#574 (1965)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#701 in the 1960s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Lesia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lesia were born in Texas than in any other state: about 209 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lesia was given 7.6 times as often in Mississippi, 5.2 times in Alabama and 5 times in Arkansas.

Texas 209
Mississippi 181
Alabama 170
Georgia 165
North Carolina 131
Kentucky 126
Tennessee 117
Arkansas 85
Louisiana 79
Florida 71
Virginia 69
Ohio 68
Michigan 52
Illinois 50
Missouri 49
California 46
New York 36
Indiana 34
South Carolina 29
Pennsylvania 18
Oklahoma 17
West Virginia 10
New Jersey 9
Maryland 4

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