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Leaha vs Leandro

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 567 Leahas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leaha Leandro

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 1981, when Leaha had 20 and Leandro had 39.

Side by side

  Leaha Leandro
Total US births 56711,078
Most in one year 26785
Babies in 2025 8785
Estimated living today 55010,000
Median age today 3510
Peak year 19902025
Best rank 3,909th girls406th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th406th
First recorded 19491906
Girls / boys 567 / 00 / 11,078

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 Leahas alive today are over 35; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 25 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 Leaha Leandro
England and Wales 38650

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: Leaha and Leandro.