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Leamon vs Leann

American parents have registered 24,363 Leanns since 1880, against 2,672 Leamons. Leann is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leamon Leann

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 128 years in which either name was published, Leann for 86 years and Leamon for 42 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Leamon Leann
Total US births 2,67224,363
Most in one year 64636
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 94022,000
Median age today 6550
Peak year 19211963
Best rank 868th boys383rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 18911925
Girls / boys 0 / 2,67224,356 / 7

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 Leamons alive today are over 65; half the Leanns are over 50. That is 15 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: Leamon and Leann.