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Girl's name · #848 in the US (2025) · Retro
Lea's best rank, #397, came in 1970; it has settled back to #848 today. Roughly 34,000 girls have been named Lea since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 23 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#11 in Austria (2025) · #19 in Switzerland (2025) · #21 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #25 in Croatia (2025) · #31 in Belgium (2025) · #38 in France (2025) · #46 in Denmark (2025) · #57 in Sweden (2025) · #82 in Norway (2025) · #84 in Czechia (2025) · #91 in Slovenia (2025) · #104 in Poland (2025) and 6 more.
Among 1,329 notable people named Lea:
Sports figures appear 1.5× more often than among typical names — e.g. Lea Schüller, German association football player.
Lea is the less common spelling of Leah — about 8% of babies given the name are written this way; Leah itself ranked #58 in 2025.
Similar names: Liah · Raquel · Liz · Hollie · Maura · Sally
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