Leisha

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Leisha by the numbers

Leisha was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 144 babies in 1960, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Leisha

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Leisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Leighameadow or field; a modern respelling of Leigh137 in the US (2017)
  • Letishagladness joy; form of Letitia
  • Laisha17 in the US (2017)
  • Lisha5 in the US (2017)
  • Leisa
  • Leilanight, dark beauty1,400 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Leisha

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