Girls' name · since 2004
Leany
Leany has 71 recorded births since 2004 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #30,970 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 2004
- 2020s
- peak decade
Leany is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 71 have been recorded since 2004.
Leany has 71 recorded births among girls since 2004, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2004 to 2024.
- #30,970 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 71 born since 2004
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leany ranks #30,970 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 71 born since 2004, peaking in the 2020s.
- #30,970 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 2004
- 2020s
- peak decade
Leany's 71 recorded births place it above 57.08% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Leany's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Leany's full recorded timeline at 2017, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2005, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Leany popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–2024
- Peak year (2022)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Leany by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (27 births, 38% of the file).
2020s was Leany's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.
Leany births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
22 births
- 2010s
2010s
22 births
- 2020s
2020s
27 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 27 births (38% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Leany: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2004–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Leany draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.