Comments for the name Lea

This name is pronounced Lay-ah in Germany. It´s really popular here.

This name actually means "wild cow" or "someone who tries hard without having success".

Lea Salonga is a Broadway performer.

Jesse McCartney's younger sister's name is Lea Joyce McCartney.

Listen to the German pronunciation of Lea here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

This is such a cute name!

Popular girls name in Slovenia. [noted -ed]

This name sounds really nasal to me. When I was seven I liked the name, but now I absolutely hate it because I know someone named Lea that I am not particularly fond of.

Lea is also the Dutch form of Leah. [noted -ed]

I think the spelling of Leah is much more attractive.

I much prefer the LAY-ah pronunciation of this name. I think LE-ah is so boring and blah.

Lea Thompson is an American actress, famous for her role as Lorraine in "Back to the Future."

A famous bearer is Czech triathlonist and biathlonist Lea Johanides.

The Dutch pronunciation is LAY-ah.

Lea is also Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish form.

Italian assistant director Alessandro Casale and Slovak actress Barbora Bobul'ová have a daughter Lea Casale, born 2007.

Lea Michele, an actress and singer, portrays the character of Rachel Berry in Fox's new show "Glee."

I like this name, but there's an urban legend going around that there's a girl who spells it Le-a. On top of that, she supposedly pronounces it "Ledasha".

I'm surprised that as thorough a resource as "Behind the Name" only acknowledges ONE pronunciation for this name. This simple three-letter name can be pronounced several ways. The "German" way this site suggest would only be one--and I'm not even sure THAT's accurate. As someone who has German as a 2nd language, I'd say it's closer to LAY-a. Actress Lea Thompson, however, pronounces her name LEE-a (I believe). Whereas newswoman Lea Thompson pronounces it LEE. As a last name it's also monosyllabic (LEA & PERRIN).

Lea is also Finnish form of Leah. [noted -ed]

Also a girls' name in Croatia. [noted -ed]

Other than being a variant of Leah, Lea also means "lioness" in Latin.

It is pronounced Leh-ah in Norway. Nice three letter name and I prefer the Norwegian pronunciation :)

My friend's name is Lea, and she pronounces it "Leah". Our teacher pronounces it "Leia" because he had a friend with the same name, and she pronounced it that way. So, to me, it seems that if you name your kid this, while pretty, it could get really annoying if people keep pronouncing it wrong.

Lea is also Czech form of Leah.

Lea also celebrate name day April 29th in Czechia.

Lea Michele Sarfati is an American actress and singer.

Lea is very pretty, and it could be used as a feminine variant of Leo.

This is my middle name, and my parents chose to pronounce it "lee." much like the word "flea" is pronounced "flee". My grandfather even had a rhyme to go with it. My name is Tonya and his nickname for me is "Tawny" and his little song that he used to sing to me went something like this, "Tawny Lea is a flea and she is really buggin' me."