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Leandro vs Leara

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 250 Learas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leandro against Leara, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leandro Leara

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 119 years in which either name was published, Leandro for 118 years and Leara for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Leandro Leara
Total US births 11,078250
Most in one year 78513
Babies in 2025 785under 5
Estimated living today 10,000160
Median age today 1018
Peak year 20251922
Best rank 406th boys2,612th girls
Rank in 2025 406thunranked
First recorded 19061911
Girls / boys 0 / 11,078250 / 0

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 Learas alive today are over 18; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leandro Leara
Switzerland 5,30431
England and Wales 6506

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: Leandro and Leara.