Leanne
Leanne was given to 71 girls in 2025, #2,503 among girls’ names; 29,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,700 Americans named Leanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 37 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leanne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leanne is “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Lee Ann.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leanne?
#2,503 among girls’ names, 2025
Leanne fell from #1,807 in 2015 to #2,503 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.0 to 44.2 per million.
801 babies in 1969, the peak
Leanne peaked in 1969, when 801 girls were given it, #321 among girls’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,503 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,710 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,507 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,330 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,526 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,090 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,883 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,182 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,774 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,807 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,846 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,893 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,579 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,617 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,601 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,716 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,760 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 138 | #1,616 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,423 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,333 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 190 | #1,144 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 159 | #1,250 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 205 | #1,047 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 208 | #1,016 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 244 | #878 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 276 | #781 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 292 | #732 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 259 | #798 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 313 | #681 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 327 | #655 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 420 | #566 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 409 | #569 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 446 | #523 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 447 | #532 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 529 | #457 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 521 | #436 | 0.29 |
| 1987 | 489 | #453 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 567 | #399 | 0.33 |
| 1985 | 572 | #393 | 0.33 |
| 1984 | 597 | #379 | 0.35 |
| 1983 | 600 | #373 | 0.36 |
| 1982 | 575 | #404 | 0.34 |
| 1981 | 632 | #371 | 0.38 |
| 1980 | 683 | #346 | 0.41 |
| 1979 | 630 | #359 | 0.39 |
| 1978 | 422 | #468 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 386 | #493 | 0.25 |
| 1976 | 405 | #468 | 0.28 |
| 1975 | 468 | #426 | 0.32 |
| 1974 | 412 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 1973 | 533 | #385 | 0.37 |
| 1972 | 518 | #396 | 0.34 |
| 1971 | 607 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1970 | 682 | #361 | 0.39 |
| 1969 | 801 | #321 | 0.47 |
| 1968 | 715 | #326 | 0.44 |
| 1967 | 702 | #330 | 0.43 |
| 1966 | 765 | #320 | 0.45 |
| 1965 | 739 | #331 | 0.42 |
| 1964 | 702 | #356 | 0.37 |
| 1963 | 684 | #366 | 0.35 |
| 1962 | 693 | #359 | 0.35 |
| 1961 | 664 | #374 | 0.33 |
| 1960 | 601 | #387 | 0.30 |
| 1959 | 597 | #388 | 0.30 |
| 1958 | 470 | #437 | 0.23 |
| 1957 | 440 | #450 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 443 | #437 | 0.22 |
| 1955 | 376 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1954 | 324 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 299 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1952 | 229 | #572 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 216 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1950 | 193 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 180 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 166 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 143 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 122 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 105 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 99 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 90 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 101 | #757 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 75 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 79 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 61 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 55 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 44 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,205 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leanne has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leanne, and how old are they?
26,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 29,632 Americans ever recorded as Leanne. The median Leanne alive today is 49 years old; half are between 37 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 28,033 people named Leanne (28,003 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 363 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Leanne born?
The states with the most babies named Leanne are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,662 | #1,804 | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,933 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,788 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,527 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 1,426 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 1,389 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,332 | #1,599 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,307 | #2,799 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 1,081 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Minnesota | 825 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Leanne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leanne is most over-represented in Washington: since 1929 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leanne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,428 babies since 1880, Leanne is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 706 babies (10%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Leanne
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 Leanne and names like it
- Compare Leanne and LeannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLeanne peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leanne since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Leanne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Leanne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leanne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.