Leanora
Leanora was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,236 among girls’ names; 1,469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leanora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leanora?
#6,236 among girls’ names, 2025
Leanora rose from #8,250 in 2015 to #6,236 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 11.8 per million.
28 babies in 1927, the peak
Leanora peaked in 1927, when 28 girls were given it, #1,570 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,236 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,223 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,556 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,357 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,856 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,413 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,553 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,270 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,094 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,563 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,250 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,604 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,963 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,115 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,844 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,568 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,241 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,684 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,078 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,488 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,938 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,984 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,556 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,477 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,081 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,756 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,731 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,729 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,219 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,777 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,144 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,611 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,641 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,557 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,039 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,867 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,620 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,112 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,605 | 7.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,340 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,218 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,249 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,071 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,926 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,785 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,086 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,899 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,177 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,332 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,080 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,312 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,405 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,525 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,127 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,048 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,487 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,354 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,199 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,221 | 12.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,787 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,651 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,024 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,238 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,639 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,496 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,468 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,220 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,357 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,135 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,269 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,465 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,115 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,265 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,144 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,064 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,361 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,840 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,056 | 8.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,252 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,045 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,340 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,741 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,497 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,987 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,862 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,870 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,570 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,304 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,076 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,035 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,059 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,065 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,838 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,039 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,544 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,444 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,054 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,765 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,385 | 27.4 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,195 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,496 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,056 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,082 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,701 | 22.7 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,619 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,223 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,090 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,215 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,774 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,265 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,523 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,507 | 26.7 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,671 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leanora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leanora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leanora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leanora, and how old are they?
An estimated 822 Americans named Leanora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 14 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Leanora (869 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 Leanora born?
The states with the most babies named Leanora are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Leanora 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 72,364 babies since 1880, Leanora is the fifth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 809 babies (2.3%), the fourth 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 Leanora
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 Leanora and names like it
- Compare Leanora and LenoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeanora peaked in 1927.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leanora since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Leanora.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leanora alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.