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Leandro vs Leasha

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 309 Leashas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandro Leasha

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

Leandro has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1961, when Leandro had 30 and Leasha had 18.

Side by side

  Leandro Leasha
Total US births 11,078309
Most in one year 78520
Babies in 2025 785under 5
Estimated living today 10,000290
Median age today 1048
Peak year 20251962
Best rank 406th boys2,741st girls
Rank in 2025 406thunranked
First recorded 19061960
Girls / boys 0 / 11,078309 / 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 Leashas alive today are over 48; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 38 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 Leasha
England and Wales 65015

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 Leasha.