Leighann
Leighann was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,179 among girls’ names; 3,441 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,310 Americans named Leighann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leighann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leighann?
#14,179 among girls’ names, 2025
Leighann fell from #4,931 in 2015 to #14,179 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 3.7 per million.
119 babies in 1986, the peak
Leighann peaked in 1986, when 119 girls were given it, #1,190 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,179 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,290 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,762 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,594 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,072 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,796 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,876 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,394 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,597 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,393 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,931 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,846 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,050 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,962 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,388 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,682 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,716 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,321 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,174 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,215 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,386 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,767 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,441 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,566 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,989 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,616 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,453 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,785 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,792 | 48.3 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,194 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,035 | 38.1 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,845 | 43.1 |
| 1993 | 106 | #1,497 | 58.6 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,115 | 34.7 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,785 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,745 | 44.2 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,416 | 57.0 |
| 1988 | 100 | #1,401 | 56.2 |
| 1987 | 113 | #1,253 | 65.0 |
| 1986 | 119 | #1,190 | 69.4 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,327 | 58.1 |
| 1984 | 91 | #1,339 | 54.0 |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,224 | 62.3 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,272 | 59.6 |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,257 | 61.7 |
| 1980 | 112 | #1,191 | 67.5 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,562 | 46.1 |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,575 | 45.0 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,937 | 33.3 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,234 | 25.9 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,301 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,983 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,203 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,684 | 34.8 |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,652 | 33.7 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,746 | 29.7 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,619 | 32.6 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,695 | 29.3 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,693 | 27.9 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,543 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,713 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,274 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,232 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,192 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,274 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,282 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,319 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,769 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,462 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leighann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leighann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leighann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leighann, and how old are they?
3,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,441 Americans ever recorded as Leighann. The median Leighann alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 5,110 people named Leighann (5,102 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 759 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 733 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 260 |
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 Leighann born?
The states with the most babies named Leighann are New York, California and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 203 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 167 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 152 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 149 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 94 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 86 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 72 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Leighann with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leighann
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 Leighann and names like it
- Compare Leighann and LeighanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLeighann peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leighann since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Leighann.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Leighann alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.