Leander vs Leanne
American parents have registered 29,632 Leannes since 1880, against 6,956 Leanders. But in 2025 it was Leander that was commoner, 122 babies to 71.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Leander Leanne
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 145 years in which either name was published, Leanne for 82 years and Leander for 63 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Leander | Leanne | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,956 | 29,632 |
| Most in one year | 122 | 801 |
| Babies in 2025 | 122 | 71 |
| Estimated living today | 4,000 | 27,000 |
| Median age today | 36 | 48 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1969 |
| Best rank | 1,459th boys | 321st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,459th | 2,485th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1929 |
| Girls / boys | 28 / 6,928 | 29,627 / 5 |
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 Leannes alive today are over 48; half the Leanders are over 36. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Leander Arizona (7.8×), Minnesota (6.8×), North Carolina (4.7×)
- Leanne Washington (2.6×), Massachusetts (2.3×), Hawaii (1.9×)
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 | Leander | Leanne |
|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 3 | 4,136 |
| France | 20 | 3,695 |
| England and Wales | 208 | 3,373 |
| Belgium | 1,069 | 78 Léanne |
| Switzerland | 311 | 363 Léanne |
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: Leander and Leanne.