Leyland
Leyland was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,472 among boys’ names; 303 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leyland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leyland?
#7,472 among boys’ names, 2025
Leyland fell from #4,641 in 2015 to #7,472 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 6.4 per million.
21 babies in 2015, the peak
Leyland peaked in 2015, when 21 boys were given it, #4,641 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,472 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,545 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,129 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,089 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,568 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,175 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,731 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,558 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,431 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,056 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,641 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,984 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,733 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,517 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,448 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,382 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,726 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,666 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,409 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,237 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,170 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,724 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,375 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,948 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,662 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,954 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leyland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leyland has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Leyland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leyland, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Leyland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 363 people named Leyland (29 women and girls, 334 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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.
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 63,472 babies since 1880, Leyland is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 745 babies (1.5%), the fourth 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 Leyland
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 Leyland and names like it
- Compare Leyland and LelandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeyland peaked in 2015.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leyland since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Leyland.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leyland alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.