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Leeann vs Leeanna

American parents have registered 14,334 Leeanns since 1880, against 4,008 Leeannas. Leeann is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leeann Leeanna

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 111 years in which either name was published, Leeann for 91 years and Leeanna for 20 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Leeann Leeanna
Total US births 14,3344,008
Most in one year 359122
Babies in 2025 3328
Estimated living today 13,0003,700
Median age today 4430
Peak year 19621989
Best rank 513th girls1,288th girls
Rank in 2025 4,265th4,758th
First recorded 19281900
Girls / boys 14,334 / 04,008 / 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 Leeannas are over 30. That is 14 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 Leeann Leeanna
Scotland 3854
England and Wales 249

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: Leeann and Leeanna.