Lean — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lean

The Social Security Administration has registered 671 babies named Lean between 1916 and 2023, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lean currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Lean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 205 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lean performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 194 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lean in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lean in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 671 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.