Leen
Leen was given to 108 girls in 2025, #1,852 among girls’ names; 1,765 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Leen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leen?
#1,852 among girls’ names, 2025
Leen rose from #2,005 in 2015 to #1,852 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 55.5 to 67.2 per million.
114 babies in 2024, the peak
Leen peaked in 2024, when 114 girls were given it, #1,776 among girls’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,852 | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,776 | 70.4 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,977 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,062 | 57.3 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,964 | 60.9 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,233 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,279 | 47.7 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,859 | 64.1 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,871 | 63.1 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,878 | 61.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 99 | #2,005 | 55.5 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,228 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,201 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,821 | 35.2 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,625 | 38.7 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,388 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,539 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,829 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,756 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,214 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,188 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,666 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,364 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,364 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,960 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,826 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,194 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,479 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,086 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,798 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,736 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,700 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,519 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,386 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leen, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,765 Americans ever recorded as Leen. The median Leen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,422 people named Leen (1,371 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
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 Leen born?
The states with the most babies named Leen are California, Michigan and Texas, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,706 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 12 | #665 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,986 | 0.7× |
| New York | 10 | #1,377 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | #929 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,338 | 1.2× |
Where Leen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leen is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1991 it was given 2.4 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 Leen 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 41,639 babies since 1880, Leen is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 213 babies (51%), 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 Leen
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 Leen and names like it
- Compare Leen and LeannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeen peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leen since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Leen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.