Name
LEA

Name LEA

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 121,282 births of Lea in the countries below, which represents an average of 854 births of children bearing the first name Lea per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 3,841 births.

Other languages  :  
En Français Prénom Lea   
In Italiano Nome Lea   
Available variants : Leá , Léa , Lèa , Ļea
Variations : Leah , Léah


Information about the first name Lea

We celebrate Lea on March 22nd
The first name Lea is listed in our categories :The first name Lea has been assigned to:
0.06% to boys
99.94% to girls
The country where the first name Lea is the most common is:
US United State of America
This first name is on trend: Female
This first name has 3 letters including 2 vowels and 1 consonant

Anagrams of the first name Lea

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Lea : Ael, Aël, Ale, Ela, Elá, Elâ, Éla, Lae

Anacyclics of the first name Lea

An anacyclic is a word or phrase that can be read in the normal sense of reading or in the opposite direction. Here is the list of names that are anonymous of the given name Lea: Ael, Aël

Lea in Japanese *

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Katakanaレア
Hiraganaれあ
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Origin and meaning of name Lea

US English
Etymology src :
  • From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
  • Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
Etymology src :
  • From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).
Etymology (Alternative forms) src :
  • leigh, ley, lay
Etymology (Noun) src :
  • lea (plural leas)
  • An open field, meadow.
  • 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
  • Two children in two neighbor villages
  • Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Etymology (Proper noun) src :
  • Lea
  • A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
Etymology (Noun) src :
  • lea (plural leas)
  • Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
  • Synonym: rap
  • A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Etymology (Proper noun) src :
  • Lea
  • An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
Anagrams src :
  • Ale, E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale
Anagrams src :
  • Ale, E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale
Noun src :
  • LEA (plural LEAs)
  • (US) Initialism of law enforcement agency.
  • (England, education, historical) Initialism of local education authority.
Pronunciation src :
  • Rhymes: -iːə
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /liː/, /leɪ/
  • Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
  • Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh
FR French
Etymology src :
  • Blend of le +‎ la.
Pronoun src :
  • lea n (plural les)
  • (gender-neutral, neologism) (direct object) them
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /lə.a/
Pronoun (See also) src :
  • iel
General
Etymology (Proper noun) src :
  • Lea
  • A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
  • A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
  • A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
  • A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
ES Spanish
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈlea/ [ˈle.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: Le‧a
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈlea/ [ˈle.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: le‧a
Proper noun src :
  • Lea f
  • Leah (biblical figure)
  • Synonym: Lía
  • a female given name
Verb src :
  • lea
  • inflection of leer:
  • first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  • third-person singular imperative
Slovak
Etymology src :
  • Derived from Hebrew לֵאָה‎ (leah).
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛa/
Proper noun src :
  • Lea f (genitive singular Ley, nominative plural Ley, declension pattern of žena)
  • Leah (biblical figure)
  • a female given name, today also spelled Leah
Proper noun (Derived terms) src :
  • Leuška
  • Lola, Lolka
  • Lolina, Lolinka
Galician
Noun src :
  • lea f (plural leas)
  • fight, quarrel
Synonyms src :
  • liorta
  • briga
  • lida
Verb src :
  • lea
  • first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
  • third-person singular present subjunctive of ler
Icelandic
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛːa/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːa
Proper noun src :
  • Lea f
  • Leah (biblical figure).
  • a female given name
SE Swedish
Proper noun src :
  • Lea c (genitive Leas)
  • Leah (biblical figure).
  • a female given name
RO Romanian
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): [le̯a]
Verb src :
  • lea
  • third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of la
Latin
Noun src :
  • lea f (genitive leae); first declension
  • (poetic) a lioness
Pronunciation src :
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]
Noun (Declension) src :
  • First-declension noun.
Noun (Related terms) src :
  • leō m
Noun (Synonyms) src :
  • leaena
FI Finnish
Etymology src :
  • From Hebrew לֵאָה‎ (Le'a).
Anagrams src :
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈle(ː)ɑ/, [ˈle̞(ː)ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -eɑ
  • Syllabification(key): le‧a
Proper noun src :
  • Lea
  • Leah (biblical character).
  • a female given name
Proper noun (Related terms) src :
  • (given name) Leea
Proper noun (Statistics) src :
  • Lea is the 81st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,387 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,294 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
DK Danish
Proper noun src :
  • Lea
  • Leah (biblical character).
  • a female given name
DE German
Proper noun src :
  • Lea
  • Leah (biblical character)
  • a female given name of currently popular usage
NO Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology src :
  • From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
Etymology src :
  • See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Etymology (Alternative forms) src :
  • lee (with e infinitive)
  • leda, lede
Etymology (Verb) src :
  • lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lea/le)
  • (transitive) to wiggle, move
Etymology (Noun) src :
  • lea n
  • definite plural of le
Anagrams src :
NO Norwegian Bokmål
Verb src :
  • lea
  • simple past and past participle of lee
Verb (Alternative forms) src :
  • leet
 

Popularity of the name Lea

Number of LEA births per year

Popularity of the name Lea
Popularity of the name Lea

Total births of Lea by country

Births with the first name Lea
Country
Boys
Girls
USUnited State of America
1880 - 2022
35
27,382
BRBrazil
1930 - 2022
0
15,579
QCQuebec
1980 - 2022
15
11,921
ATAustria
1984 - 2021
0
11,625
CHSwitzerland
1909 - 2021
0
11,072
DEGermany
2000 - 2022
4
8,708
FRFrance
1900 - 2022
0
6,985
DKDenmark
1985 - 2022
0
5,749
SESweden
1998 - 2022
0
3,032
ITItaly
1999 - 2021
4
2,506
SISlovenia
1992 - 2022
0
2,365
NONorway
1945 - 2022
0
2,215
PLPoland
2000 - 2022
0
2,019
CZCzechoslovakia
1900 - 2016
0
1,857
GBUnited Kingdom
1996 - 2021
6
1,568
BEBelgium
1995 - 2022
0
1,402
HRCroatia
2018 - 2022
0
1,177
SKSlovakia
2011 - 2022
0
1,079
ONOntario
1913 - 2019
0
1,037
NLNetherlands
2015 - 2022
0
499
ARArgentina
1922 - 2015
0
458
IEIreland
1964 - 2022
0
360
BCBritish Columbia
1919 - 2022
0
205
ABAlberta
1980 - 2022
2
112
AUAustralia
1930 - 2022
12
92
CLChili
2010 - 2021
0
78
LVLatvia
2015 - 2022
0
50
PTPortugal
2014 - 2022
0
50
NZNew Zealand
1900 - 2022
0
22
Popularity of the name Lea

Total births of Lea by country (last available year)

Births with the first name Lea
Country
Boys
Girls
DEGermany
2022
1
979
ATAustria
2021
0
536
QCQuebec
2022
1
371
USUnited State of America
2022
0
307
PLPoland
2022
0
249
CHSwitzerland
2021
0
248
SESweden
2022
0
212
HRCroatia
2022
0
202
DKDenmark
2022
0
156
BEBelgium
2022
0
109
CZCzechoslovakia
2016
0
93
NONorway
2022
0
79
NLNetherlands
2022
0
78
GBUnited Kingdom
2021
0
69
FRFrance
2022
0
55
SISlovenia
2022
0
32
CLChili
2021
0
19
ONOntario
2019
0
16
LVLatvia
2022
0
9
ARArgentina
2015
0
8
IEIreland
2022
0
8
ABAlberta
2022
0
3
ITItaly
2021
0
1

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Personalities with the first name Lea

There are 88 personalities with the first name Lea

Léa Seydoux (Léa Hélène Seydoux Fornier De Clausonne) src

France
Actor Film actor

Lea Michele (Lea Michele Sarfati) src

United states of america
Actor Child actor Musical theatre actor Stage actor Voice actor Television actor Film actor Activist Recording artist Pop singer

Lea Thompson (Lea Katherine Thompson) src

United states of america
Television producer Ballet dancer Stage actor Film director Director Television actor Film actor

Lea Salonga (Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga) src

Philippines
Actor Singer Columnist Stage actor Voice actor Producer Recording artist

Leah Goldberg src

Israel
Writer Poet Playwright Translator Pedagogue Literary editor Literary critic Children's writer Opinion journalist Literary theorist

Françoise Giroud (Lea France Gourdji) src

France
Screenwriter Writer Politician Journalist

Lea Sirk src

Slovenia
Singer

Lea Massari src

Italy
Film actor

Lexa src

Brazil
Actor Singer-songwriter

Andrea Absolonová (Andrea Lea Absolonová) src

Czech republic Czechoslovakia
Pornographic actor Model Film actor Competitive diver


There are more than 10 personalities with the first name Lea
Full list of personalities with the first name Lea

Film Actors and Actresses with the first name Lea

There are 626 actors and actresses with the first name Lea
Lea Myren
Lea Stankovic
Lea Müller
Lea Kolditz
Lea Van Acken
Lea Kolouchová
Lea Stemmer
Lea Eisleb
Lea Wolfram
Lea Kurka
Lea Morrison
Lea Høyer
Lea Fast
Lea Lexis
Lea Marlen Woitack
Lea Michele
Lea Faßbender
Lea Magic
Lea Farlow
Lea Moreno
Lea Jerova
Lea De Mae
Lea Lachey
Lea Bender
Lea Goodwin
Lea Cirianni
Lea Martini
Lea Mornar
Lea Hadorn
Lea Salonga

There are more than 30 actors and actresses with the first name Lea
The full list of actors and actresses with the first name Lea

Rankings of first name LEA by country

Country ranking (boys)
RankCountryYear
#6437QC Quebec2022
#10268DE Germany2022
Country ranking (girls)
RankCountryYear
#8QC Quebec2022
#10AT Austria2021
#13CH Switzerland2021
#14HR Croatia2022
#43DK Denmark2022
#46DE Germany2022
#49SE Sweden2022
#64SI Slovenia2022
#70BE Belgium2022
#75NO Norway2022
#89PL Poland2022
#101CZ Czechoslovakia2016
#155LV Latvia2022
#193NL Netherlands2022
#401CL Chili2021
#481IE Ireland2022
#570GB United Kingdom2021
#654AR Argentina2015
#689ON Ontario2019
#796US United State of America2022
#800FR France2022
#1321AB Alberta2022
#20899IT Italy2021
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Other girls' names around Lea
LCATERINALCIALCIANALCIENELCREZIALCUIALDAILDELDIALDIANE LEA LE'ALEÁLÉALÈAĻEALEAANELEAANNLEAANNELEABLEABEL

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