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Leandra vs Leanne

American parents have registered 29,632 Leannes since 1880, against 7,067 Leandras. Leanne is still ahead, with 71 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leandra against Leanne, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leandra 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 108 years in which either name was published, Leanne for 97 years and Leandra for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leandra Leanne
Total US births 7,06729,632
Most in one year 275801
Babies in 2025 4271
Estimated living today 6,70027,000
Median age today 3348
Peak year 19891969
Best rank 734th girls321st girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th2,485th
First recorded 19131929
Girls / boys 7,029 / 3829,627 / 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 Leandras are over 33. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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 Leandra Leanne
France 9703,695
England and Wales 2653,373
Switzerland 1,798363 Léanne
Belgium 10678 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: Leandra and Leanne.