Name
LEA

Name LEA

Between 1880 and 2019 there were 102,984 births of Lea in the countries below, which represents an average of 741 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 3,147 births.

Other languages  :  
En Français Prénom Lea   
In Italiano Nome Lea   
Available variants : Leá , Léa , Lèa
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:
0.07% to boys
99.93% 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 *

Romajirea
Katakanaレア
Hiraganaれあ
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Lea in Japanese
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Lea in sign language

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Lea in binary language

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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-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.
  • 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
  • The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
  • The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
  • And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
  • XIX 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; for cotton, 120 yards.
  • Synonym: lay
  • A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Etymology (Proper noun) src :
  • Lea
  • An English surname, a variant of Lee.
Anagrams src :
  • E-la, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale
Anagrams src :
  • E-la, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale
Noun src :
  • LEA (plural LEAs)
  • (Britain, education) Initialism of local education authority.
  • Initialism of law enforcement agent.
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /liː/, /leɪ/
  • Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
  • Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh
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.
ES Spanish
Proper noun src :
  • Lea f
  • Leah (biblical figure).
  • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 29:16-17
  • Y Labán tenía dos hijas: el nombre de la mayor era Lea y el nombre de la menor, Rachêl. Y los ojos de Lea eran tiernos, pero Rachêl era de lindo semblante y de hermoso parecer.Synonym: Lía
  • A female given name.
Verb src :
  • lea
  • Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
  • First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
  • Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
  • Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of leer.
Slovak
Etymology src :
  • From Hebrew לֵאָה‎ (leah).
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛa/
Proper noun src :
  • Lea f (genitive Ley, nominative plural Ley) declension pattern 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 present subjunctive of la
  • third-person plural present subjunctive of la
Latin
Noun src :
  • lea f (genitive leae); first declension
  • (poetic) a lioness
Pronunciation src :
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛː.a]
Noun (Declension) src :
  • First-declension noun.
Noun (Related terms) src :
  • leō m
Noun (Synonyms) src :
  • leaena
FI Finnish
Anagrams src :
Pronunciation src :
  • IPA(key): /ˈleɑ/, [ˈle̞ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -eɑ
  • Syllabification: Le‧a
Proper noun (Related terms) src :
  • (given name) Leea
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 currently popular.
NO Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology src :
  • From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
Etymology src :
  • See the etymology of the main entry.
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 le)
  • (transitive) to wiggle, move
Etymology (Nounlea n) src :
  • 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 - 2019
35
26,455
BRBrazil
1930 - 2010
0
15,579
QCQuebec
1980 - 2019
13
10,631
CHSwitzerland
1912 - 2019
0
10,555
ATAustria
1984 - 2018
0
9,990
FRFrance
1900 - 2019
0
6,819
DKDenmark
1985 - 2019
0
4,740
DEGermany
2000 - 2018
1
3,371
SESweden
1998 - 2019
0
2,457
ITItaly
1999 - 2018
4
2,032
NONorway
1945 - 2019
0
1,968
CZCzechoslovakia
1900 - 2016
0
1,857
GBUnited Kingdom
1996 - 2019
6
1,414
PLPoland
2000 - 2019
0
1,407
BEBelgium
1995 - 2019
0
1,096
ONOntario
1913 - 2018
0
1,021
ARArgentina
1922 - 2015
0
458
IEIreland
1964 - 2019
0
330
NLNetherlands
2015 - 2019
0
265
BCBritish Columbia
1919 - 2019
0
199
ABAlberta
1980 - 2019
2
103
AUAustralia
1944 - 2019
12
92
PTPortugal
2014 - 2019
0
50
NZNew Zealand
1900 - 2019
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
ATAustria
2018
0
470
QCQuebec
2019
0
465
DEGermany
2018
0
375
USUnited State of America
2019
0
338
CHSwitzerland
2019
0
270
PLPoland
2019
0
221
ITItaly
2018
0
195
SESweden
2019
0
169
DKDenmark
2019
0
133
CZCzechoslovakia
2016
0
93
GBUnited Kingdom
2019
0
77
BEBelgium
2019
0
74
NONorway
2019
0
72
FRFrance
2019
0
65
NLNetherlands
2019
0
64
BRBrazil
2010
0
25
ONOntario
2018
0
19
ARArgentina
2015
0
8
IEIreland
2019
0
8
ABAlberta
2019
0
6

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Personalities with the first name Lea

There are 52 personalities with the first name Lea

Léa Seydoux src

France
Actor Film actor

Lea Michele src

United states of america
Actor Composer Singer Singer-songwriter Musician Journalist Stage actor Voice actor Television actor Film actor

Lea Thompson (Lea Katherine Thompson) src

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

Lea Salonga (Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga) src

Philippines
Actor Singer Stage actor Voice actor

Lea Massari src

Italy
Film actor

Leah Goldberg src

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

Andrea Absolonová (Andrea Lea Absolonová) src

Czech republic Czechoslovakia
Pornographic actor Model Film actor Competitive diver

Lea Delaria src

United states of america
Actor Singer Stage actor Voice actor Television actor Jazz musician

Lea Padovani src

Italy Kingdom of italy
Film actor

Lea Ahlborn src

Sweden
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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 521 actors and actresses with the first name Lea
Lea Müller
Lea Kolditz
Lea Van Acken
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 Stevenson
Lea Moreno
Lea Jerova
Lea De Mae
Lea Lachey
Lea Bender
Lea Goodwin
Lea Cirianni
Lea Martini
Lea Mornar
Lea Salonga
Lea Thompson
Lea Harth
Lea Floden

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
No ranking of first name LEA (male) births over the last year available in each country
Country ranking (girls)
RankCountryYear
#6QC Quebec2019
#10CH Switzerland2019
#12AT Austria2018
#12DE Germany2018
#50DK Denmark2019
#72SE Sweden2019
#78NO Norway2019
#96PL Poland2019
#101CZ Czechoslovakia2016
#122BE Belgium2019
#141IT Italy2018
#222NL Netherlands2019
#484IE Ireland2019
#530GB United Kingdom2019
#589ON Ontario2018
#654AR Argentina2015
#713AB Alberta2019
#725FR France2019
#735US United State of America2019
#2842BR Brazil2010
Other boys' names around Lea
LBERTOLCALCASLCIANOLCOMELCUALCUADIOLCUIOLDAYLDRENZO LEA LÉALEABDROLEABRAKSALEACIRLEADENLEADERSONLEADHAMLEADROLEADTHANIELLEAF

Other girls' names around Lea
LCATERINALCIALCIANALCIENELCREZIALCUIALDAILDELDIALDIANE LEA LE'ALEÁLÉALÈALEAANELEAANNLEAANNELEABLEABELLEABELLE

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