Leelan
Leelan was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,510 among boys’ names; 554 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leelan?
#5,510 among boys’ names, 2025
Leelan fell from #2,745 in 2015 to #5,510 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 10.0 per million.
44 babies in 2015, the peak
Leelan peaked in 2015, when 44 boys were given it, #2,745 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,510 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,349 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,122 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,687 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,570 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,977 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,681 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,162 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,284 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,572 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,745 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,867 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,741 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,850 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,483 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,313 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,375 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,210 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,309 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,212 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,772 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leelan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leelan, and how old are they?
An estimated 549 Americans named Leelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Leelan (29 women and girls, 449 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,854 babies since 1880, Leelan is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 67 babies (25%), the 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 Leelan
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 Leelan and names like it
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