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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lesa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lesa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lesa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lesa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lesa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lesa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lesa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lesa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 100%
1948 23 0.000006662 23 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 35 0.00000999 35 100%
1951 50 0.000013573 50 100%
1952 67 0.000017641 67 100%
1953 98 0.00002543 98 100%
1954 156 0.000039189 156 100%
1955 219 0.000054544 219 100%
1956 304 0.000073732 304 100%
1957 424 0.000100901 424 100%
1958 587 0.000141997 587 100%
1959 532 0.000127946 532 100%
1960 686 0.000165149 686 100%
1961 770 0.000185887 765 5 99%
1962 778 0.000192795 771 7 98%
1963 726 0.000183417 726 100%
1964 683 0.000175687 683 100%
1965 699 0.000192804 699 100%
1966 616 0.000177233 616 100%
1967 542 0.000159651 542 100%
1968 454 0.000134383 454 100%
1969 368 0.000105889 368 100%
1970 350 0.000097047 350 100%
1971 270 0.000078663 270 100%
1972 188 0.000059816 188 100%
1973 185 0.000061321 185 100%
1974 144 0.000047368 144 100%
1975 129 0.000042724 129 100%
1976 112 0.000036911 112 100%
1977 109 0.000034315 109 100%
1978 104 0.000032768 104 100%
1979 102 0.000030658 102 100%
1980 79 0.000022935 79 100%
1981 62 0.000017922 62 100%
1982 81 0.00002309 81 100%
1983 55 0.000015881 55 100%
1984 46 0.000013185 46 100%
1985 47 0.000013169 47 100%
1986 43 0.000012089 43 100%
1987 44 0.000012203 44 100%
1988 47 0.00001272 47 100%
1989 43 0.000011185 43 100%
1990 43 0.000010879 43 100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%

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