Leighana
Leighana was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,641 among girls’ names; 359 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leighana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leighana?
#8,641 among girls’ names, 2025
Leighana fell from #7,830 in 2015 to #8,641 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 7.5 per million.
23 babies in 2012, the peak
Leighana peaked in 2012, when 23 girls were given it, #5,808 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,641 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,886 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,412 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,383 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,988 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,393 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,400 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,988 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,669 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,226 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,830 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,877 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,836 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,808 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,638 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,552 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,031 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,954 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,529 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,079 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,589 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,243 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,010 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,845 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,194 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,111 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,482 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,261 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,829 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,265 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,022 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,908 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,613 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,558 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leighana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leighana 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 Leighana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leighana, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Leighana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Leighana (292 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,887 babies since 1880, Leighana is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 20 babies (60%), 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 Leighana
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 Leighana and names like it
- Compare Leighana and LeighanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeighana peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Leighana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leighana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.