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Leandre vs Leanne

American parents have registered 29,632 Leannes since 1880, against 1,674 Leandres. Leanne is still ahead, with 71 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandre 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

Leanne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1929 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Leandre had 31 and Leanne had 70.

Side by side

  Leandre Leanne
Total US births 1,67429,632
Most in one year 55801
Babies in 2025 1871
Estimated living today 1,60027,000
Median age today 2748
Peak year 19911969
Best rank 1,557th boys321st girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th2,485th
First recorded 19511929
Girls / boys 15 / 1,65929,627 / 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 Leandres are over 27. That is 21 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 Leandre Leanne
France 21,205 Léandre3,695
England and Wales 303,373
Belgium 507 Léandre78 Léanne
Switzerland 207 Léandre363 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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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leandre and Leanne.