Leianna
Leianna was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,824 among girls’ names; 853 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leianna?
#4,824 among girls’ names, 2025
Leianna fell from #4,803 in 2015 to #4,824 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 17.4 per million.
44 babies in 2017, the peak
Leianna peaked in 2017, when 44 girls were given it, #3,517 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,824 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,253 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,814 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,533 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,173 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,829 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,117 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,724 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,517 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,926 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,803 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,845 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,705 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,913 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,199 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,075 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,328 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,508 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,170 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,638 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,017 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,306 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,610 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,655 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,962 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,333 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,944 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,360 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,464 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,107 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,860 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,499 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,129 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,021 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,775 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,430 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,903 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,342 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,841 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,324 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leianna, and how old are they?
An estimated 845 Americans named Leianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 611 people named Leianna (611 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 681 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 74,294 babies since 1880, Leianna is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 654 babies (4.3%), the seventh 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 Leianna
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.
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