Lea

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• A user from New York, United States says the name Lea is of English origin and means "The best person ever".
• According to a user from Lebanon, the name Lea is of French origin and means "A big flower in the sea".

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

noun Lea

A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Etymology: Cf. Lay (n.)that which is laid), 4

noun Lea

A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.

Etymology: OE. ley lay, As. leáh leá; akin to Prov. G. lon bog, morass, grove, and perh. to L. lucus grove, E. light (n.)

Other Dictionary Sources

1. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
   Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, and pastureland
2. A unit of length of thread or yarn

Wiktionary

1. A female given name, latinized form of Leah.
2. An English surname​, a variant of Lee.
3. A river in London, also called the Lee.

Lea was also found in the following language(s): Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, German, Hawaiian, Norwegian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish

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Fun Facts about the name Lea

• How Popular is the name Lea? Lea is the 1,343^rd most popular name of all time. As a last name Lea was the 3,863^rd most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Lea have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 31,550 babies born with the first name Lea in the United States. That's more than enough people named Lea to occupy the territory of Gibraltar (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 29,441 (as of July 1, 2010).
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Lea? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1880 when it was given as a first name to 7 new born babies.
• When was Lea first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Lea is Saturday, June 13th, 1868.
• What year had the most people named Lea born? The highest recorded use of the first name Lea was in 1970 with a total of 593 babies.
• Random Lea Factoid: According to the 1951 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Lea is not a popular baby girl's name in Ohio. Imagine that, only 6 babies in Ohio have the same name as you in 1951.
• Weird things about the name Lea: Your name in reverse order is Ael. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Ela. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Lea? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 9,180 people with the last name Lea.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Lea? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 3 of them will have Lea as their last name.

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