Léa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Léa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name. Recorded meaning: French form of Leah, from Hebrew meaning 'weary' or 'wild cow' (traditional interpretations).

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 830(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 2.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈82,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
474 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 504 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LéaLatin(measured from records)
ԼեաArmenian(measured from records)
ΛεαGreek(measured from records)
ლეაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lea in FR France, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French form of Leah, from Hebrew meaning 'weary' or 'wild cow' (traditional interpretations).

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Léa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Léa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#67≈82,000 est.≈1 in 830209KLea358
PH Philippines#416≈77,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Lea135
DE Germany#337≈35,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K1Lea238
US United States#67430,5681 in 11K30KLea474
BR Brazil—12,4491 in 17K16K—2
FI Finland#85311,0491 in 50420KLea27
DK Denmark—7,0411 in 8347K—3
HR Croatia—5,3441 in 7917.3K—4
SI Slovenia—3,8571 in 5453.9K—32

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Léa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Leá, Lea, Leã

  • Russian given name152 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian

    Also written Лия, Lea, Лія, Лея, Leah

  • a separate given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Lea, Lëã, Lêã, Lèã, L̶e̶a̶

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Lea, Le-A

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Lea, Lèa, Lëä

  • Danish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Lea, Leaa, Leã, Lèâ, Lëa

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Léa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Leah (biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Du hébreu Leah, « fatiguée »; fête le 22 mars (sainte Léa).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Hebreu, peut-etre «gazelle» ou «fatiguee».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Nom biblique, probablement de l’hébreu, sens incertain.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Emma Bardac, b. 1862Françoise Giroud, b. 1916Léa Garcia, b. 1933Léa Pool, b. 1950Léa Fazer, b. 1965Léa Drucker, b. 1972Léa Salamé, b. 1979Léa Fehner, b. 1981Léa Seydoux, b. 1985Léa Mysius, b. 1989
  • Emma Bardacb. 1862FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer (1862-1934)
  • Françoise Giroudb. 1916FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer and politician (1916–2003)
  • Léa Garciab. 1933BRBrazilian actress (1933-2023)
  • Léa Poolb. 1950CHfilm director, screenwriter
  • Léa Fazerb. 1965CHSwiss film director, theatre director and screenwriter
  • Léa Druckerb. 1972FRFrench actress
  • Léa Salaméb. 1979LBFrench-Lebanese journalist
  • Léa Fehnerb. 1981FRFrench film director and screenwriter
  • Léa Seydouxb. 1985FRFrench actress (born 1985)
  • Léa Mysiusb. 1989FRFrench film director and screenwriter (born 1989)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 36 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Léa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024209K#34
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—16K#1,618
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—305#1,410
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—59#2,327
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—40—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#17,273
DE GermanyStadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene20251#1
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20151—
DE GermanyStadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen2025——

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Léa mean, and where does it come from?
French form of Leah, from Hebrew meaning 'weary' or 'wild cow' (traditional interpretations). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
In which country does Léa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Léa in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lea.
Where is Léa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 504 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
Is Léa a male or female name?
Léa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Léa?
In the etymology graph, Leah and Leia are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Léa?
In the United States, the national register counted 30,568 people named Léa in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Léa compared with other names?
In France, Léa is the 67th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Léa” — the 67th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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