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Leandro vs Leatha

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 6,023 Leathas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandro Leatha

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 146 years in which either name was published, Leatha for 91 years and Leandro for 55 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leandro Leatha
Total US births 11,0786,023
Most in one year 785138
Babies in 2025 785under 5
Estimated living today 10,0002,100
Median age today 1067
Peak year 20251916
Best rank 406th boys569th girls
Rank in 2025 406thunranked
First recorded 19061880
Girls / boys 0 / 11,0786,023 / 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 Leathas alive today are over 67; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 57 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.

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