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Lea

Rooted in Hebrew, Lea is a girl's name that means "Hebrew, weary or gazelle". It settled in after its 1960s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

EtymologyVariant of Leah
HebrewHebrew – "weary" or "gazelle"
Births by decade
1900s
247
1910s
673
1920s
804
1930s
752
1940s
1,173
1950s
2,951
1960s
4,553
1970s
4,494
1980s
3,983
1990s
3,828
2000s
4,249
2010s
3,531
Peaked in the 1960s · 31,238 total U.S. births since 1900