Given name & surname
Lesa
“my God is bountiful”
Lesa is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lesa is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lesa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,421
- 12 boys · 11,409 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 778 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 771 in 1962. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,440 as a first name in 2020; 184 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lesa’s family of names
In Czech usage, Lesa is a diminutive of LESANA. Lesa has a related form in Lisa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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