Lecia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/əɫʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lecia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 286K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 61K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,163 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lecia 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,163 | 1 in 286K | 1.2K | Lecia | 236 |
| BR Brazil | 866 | 1 in 244K | 866 | — | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Lecia | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Lecia | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 278K | listed | Lecia | 48 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Lecia | 30 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Lecia | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Lecia | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | 1 |
1,163 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lecia Jönssonb. 1948DKDanish singer
- Lecia Cornwallb. 1960CACanadian writer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #11,167 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 866 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 864 | #9,123 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 856 | #5,100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 830 | #10,360 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 816 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 746 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 538 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 306 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 232 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 208 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 161 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 are other forms of the name Lecia?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Alicia and Leticia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Alice and Felicia.
- How do you pronounce Lecia?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lecia a male or female name?
- Lecia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Lecia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Lecia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lecia.
- Where is Lecia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lecia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lecia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,163 people named Lecia in 2020, about 1 in 286 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lecia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leciaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lecia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.