Leena
Leena was given to 212 girls in 2025, #1,115 among girls’ names; 5,785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,710 Americans named Leena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leena mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Leena is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Magdalene” (Matleena).
Vernacular form of Magdaleena, Matleena (“Magdalene”) and Helena. Cognate with Swedish Lena.
/ˈleːnɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leena?
#1,115 among girls’ names, 2025
Leena rose from #1,250 in 2015 to #1,115 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.13 per 1,000.
256 babies in 2019, the peak
Leena peaked in 2019, when 256 girls were given it, #1,007 among girls’ names. The 212 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 212 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 227 | #1,089 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 215 | #1,133 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 217 | #1,135 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 231 | #1,072 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 256 | #1,007 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 208 | #1,161 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 199 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 190 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 196 | #1,250 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 196 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,174 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,217 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 203 | #1,187 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 158 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,384 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 171 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,516 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,601 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,675 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,637 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,662 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,927 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,748 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,239 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,855 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,212 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,355 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,436 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,010 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,158 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,109 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,755 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,541 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,570 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,942 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,235 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,976 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,277 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,628 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,734 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,951 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,511 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,904 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,043 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,604 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,011 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,344 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,620 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,153 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leena, and how old are they?
5,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,785 Americans ever recorded as Leena. The median Leena alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,243 people named Leena (6,236 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,486 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 252 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 651 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,740 |
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 Leena born?
The states with the most babies named Leena are California, Texas and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #990 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,080 | 0.8× |
| New York | 18 | #885 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 14 | #694 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 12 | #636 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #542 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 9 | #973 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #972 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,624 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 7 | #866 | 0.6× |
Where Leena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leena is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1963 it was given 1.4 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 Leena 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 312,137 babies since 1880, Leena is the fifth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 212 of their 2,589 babies (8.2%), 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 Leena
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 Leena and names like it
- Compare Leena and LenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeena peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leena since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Leena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Leena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.