Leda
Leda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 516th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192061 births
- Best rank
- #516in 1904
- Since 1880
- 3,436people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,436 girls have been named Leda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 61 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 85 | |
| 1890s | 190 | |
| 1900s | 214 | |
| 1910s | 363 | |
| 1920s | 455 | |
| 1930s | 334 | |
| 1940s | 334 | |
| 1950s | 389 | |
| 1960s | 317 | |
| 1970s | 166 | |
| 1980s | 142 | |
| 1990s | 101 | |
| 2000s | 107 | |
| 2010s | 156 | |
| 2020s | 83 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Leda was the 934th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Leda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonapeak 1918
- Renapeak 1962
- Letapeak 1918
- Celiapeak 1915
- Aggiepeak 1920
- Almapeak 1918
- Lelapeak 1921
- Albertinepeak 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.