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The first name 
Lea

Lea is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Lea is a common name for girls!

The name Lea isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lea ranks 642. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Lea. In the entire USA, approximately 26,836 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lea. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lea

What does the name 
Lea mean?

The name Lea is a form of the Hebrew name Le’ah, which probably stands for ‘weary’. Lea is known allmost all over Europe, including Finnish, Hungarian, Croatian, German and Dutch.

In the US,... Lea has been known since the 19th century. Since the 1970s, it has been given somewhat more frequently.

Lea -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lea annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lea who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lea have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Lea even more than any other time: in 1970, it holds its present record of #380 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lea was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Lea 2022 among young parents?

Lea has never been ranked higher than #380. In 2022, she rivaled the 713 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 360 girls named Lea were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lea were born, there have been 358 newborns who received this name.

Lea has 3 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With only three letters, the name Lea is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

Other names with 
L, e and a

If you take all the letters in the name Lea – L, e and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ela or Ale.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lea

If your name is Lea and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lea

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lea, you can simply say:

Lion

Elephant

Apple

This is how the name Lea is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lea in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lea

Lea

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lea

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lea is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
E
A

Have you ever waved the name Lea

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
E
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lea sounds like this: