Leighanne
Leighanne was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,313 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Leighanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 28 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leighanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leighanne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,887, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1989, the peak
Leighanne peaked in 1989, when 48 girls were given it, #2,428 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,887 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,557 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,862 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,286 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,962 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,240 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,323 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,393 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,890 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,722 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 16 | #7,649 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,482 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,817 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,908 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,478 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,343 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,999 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,138 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,652 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,764 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,551 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,923 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,834 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,845 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,568 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,500 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,999 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,730 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,962 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,317 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,455 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,771 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,676 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,428 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,343 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,690 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,245 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,421 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,539 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,027 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,269 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,693 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,373 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,453 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,242 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,125 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,065 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,043 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,267 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,080 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,345 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,110 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,618 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,231 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,644 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,476 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,138 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,186 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,805 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,918 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,145 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,721 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,622 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,157 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,463 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leighanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leighanne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leighanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leighanne, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,313 Americans ever recorded as Leighanne. The median Leighanne alive today is 38 years old; half are between 28 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,039 people named Leighanne (2,039 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,245 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 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 294 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 565 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 279 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 74 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,887 babies since 1880, Leighanne is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Leighanne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Leighanne
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 Leighanne and names like it
- Compare Leighanne and LeighannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLeighanne peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leighanne since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Leighanne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Leighanne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.