Lea

Where Lea comes from

The dictionaries list Lea as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1961
    Lea Thompson born
    American actress
  3. 1970
    Peak, #396
    593 babies named Lea — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1986
    Lea Michele born
    American actress and singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
Namesakes
  • Lea Michele · American actress and singer, born 1986
  • Lea Thompson · American actress, born 1961
  • Lea Schüller · German association football player, born 1997
  • Lea Sirk · Slovene singer, born 1989
  • Lea DeLaria · American actor, comedian and singer, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.