Leilana
Leilana was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,707 among girls’ names; 627 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leilana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leilana?
#4,707 among girls’ names, 2025
Leilana fell from #4,265 in 2015 to #4,707 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 18.0 per million.
43 babies in 2020, the peak
Leilana peaked in 2020, when 43 girls were given it, #3,525 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,707 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,968 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,069 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,420 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,460 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,525 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,499 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,626 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,740 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,394 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,265 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,969 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,414 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,914 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,853 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,186 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,219 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,711 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,214 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,046 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,423 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,956 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,237 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,649 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,162 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,579 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leilana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leilana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leilana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leilana, and how old are they?
An estimated 622 Americans named Leilana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 451 people named Leilana (451 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,873 babies since 1880, Leilana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 4,698 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Leilana
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 Leilana and names like it
- Compare Leilana and LeilaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeilana peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leilana since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Leilana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leilana alive today were born 2013-2025.
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