Leanard
Leanard was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 387 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leanard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leanard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,546, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1934, the peak
Leanard peaked in 1934, when 17 boys were given it, #1,761 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #5,546 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,797 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,281 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,374 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,209 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,186 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,396 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,983 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,453 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,302 | 2.3 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 9 | #2,879 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,541 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,115 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,794 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,015 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,996 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,797 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,759 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,123 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,464 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,793 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,238 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,368 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,408 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,034 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,126 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,761 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,049 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,750 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,986 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,827 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,396 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,964 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,247 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,259 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,376 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,145 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,584 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,405 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,369 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,874 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,014 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,552 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,856 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,359 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,649 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,533 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leanard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leanard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leanard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leanard, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Leanard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Leanard (6 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,375 babies since 1880, Leanard is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 448 babies recorded by SSA was a Leanard (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leanard
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leanard and names like it
- Compare Leanard and LeonardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLeanard peaked in 1934.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Leanard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leanard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.