Boys' name · since 2007
Leelen
Leelen has 48 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2007 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #22,475 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 48
- born since 2007
- 2010s
- peak decade
Leelen sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 48 recorded since 2007.
Leelen has 48 recorded births among boys since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2018.
- #22,475 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 48 born since 2007
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leelen ranks #22,475 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 48 born since 2007, peaking in the 2010s.
- #22,475 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 48
- born since 2007
- 2010s
- peak decade
Leelen's 48 recorded births place it above 50.45% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Leelen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Leelen splits its recorded history at 2012: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2011 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2007 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Leelen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2018
- Peak year (2007)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Leelen by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (28 births, 58% of the file).
2010s was Leelen's strongest decade.
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Leelen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
20 births
- 2010s
2010s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 28 births (58% of all-time use).
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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, 2007–2018 (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 Leelen 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.