Leana vs Leandro
American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 4,968 Leanas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Leana Leandro
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Leana for 70 years and Leandro for 70 years. The lead changed hands 31 times.
- 1880–1923 Leana ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1929–1969 Leandro ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1977–1998 Leana ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1999–2025 Leandro ahead
22 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Leana | Leandro | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,968 | 11,078 |
| Most in one year | 100 | 785 |
| Babies in 2025 | 74 | 785 |
| Estimated living today | 4,100 | 10,000 |
| Median age today | 26 | 10 |
| Peak year | 2010 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 1,992nd girls | 406th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,410th | 406th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1906 |
| Girls / boys | 4,968 / 0 | 0 / 11,078 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Leanas alive today are over 26; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Leana California (3.6×), Florida (3.4×), New York (2.4×)
- Leandro Florida (3.2×), Texas (3.1×), New Mexico (2.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Leana | Leandro |
|---|---|---|
| France | 21,475 Léana | 10,625 |
| Switzerland | 2,267 | 5,304 |
| Belgium | 1,291 Léana | 1,939 |
| England and Wales | 197 | 650 |
| Ireland | 22 | 6 |
| Poland | 6 | 2 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leana and Leandro.