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Leeana vs Leeann

American parents have registered 14,334 Leeanns since 1880, against 822 Leeanas. Leeann is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leeana against Leeann, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leeana Leeann

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

Leeann has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1928 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Leeana had 28 and Leeann had 46.

Side by side

  Leeana Leeann
Total US births 82214,334
Most in one year 35359
Babies in 2025 1133
Estimated living today 81013,000
Median age today 1744
Peak year 20111962
Best rank 4,151st girls513th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th4,265th
First recorded 19671928
Girls / boys 822 / 014,334 / 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 Leeanns alive today are over 44; half the Leeanas are over 17. That is 27 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: Leeana and Leeann.