Lesia
The girl's name Lesia has been in the national records since 1948, with 3,180 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2017. About 2,800 Lesias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lesia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,180
- Estimated living today
- 2,800
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1965
- Best rank
- 572nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Lesias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,180 babies given the name since 1948, about 2,800 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 5 of them are children and 580 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Ukrainian Леся.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lesias
- Lesia Tsurenko (born 1989)Ukrainian female tennis player
- Lesia Vasylenko (born 1987)Ukrainian politician
- Lesia Dychko (born 1939)Soviet and Ukrainian composer, music educator, public figure
People named Lesia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lesia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lesia is most concentrated in Mississippi (7.7×), Alabama (5.0×), Arkansas (4.2×), Kentucky (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1965
The most popular girls’ names the year Lesia peaked:
Lesia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lesia +1 spelling | 915 | 1,157th |
| Poland girls | Lesia | 5 birth registrations | 612th |
| England and Wales girls | Lesia | 3 | 5,687th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Lesia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 315 women called Lesia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Lesia | 13 | 0.058 | 1,124 |
| Guadalajara | Lesia | 5 | 0.036 | 1,402 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Lesia | 37 | 0.036 | 1,669 |
| Málaga | Lesia | 33 | 0.036 | 1,448 |
| Girona | Lesia | 14 | 0.034 | 1,651 |
| Valencia/València | Lesia | 39 | 0.028 | 1,649 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lesia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.