Leatha
Leatha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 409th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916138 births
- Best rank
- #409in 1900
- Since 1880
- 6,023people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,023 girls have been named Leatha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 138 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 138 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leatha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 121 | |
| 1890s | 317 | |
| 1900s | 465 | |
| 1910s | 959 | |
| 1920s | 1,016 | |
| 1930s | 721 | |
| 1940s | 666 | |
| 1950s | 680 | |
| 1960s | 619 | |
| 1970s | 258 | |
| 1980s | 128 | |
| 1990s | 67 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Leatha was the 571st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Leatha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lethapeak 1918
- Letapeak 1918
- Laurettapeak 1915
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Mariepeak 1920
- Elvapeak 1918
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Fredapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.