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Leandrea vs Leandro

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 697 Leandreas. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandrea 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 1984, when Leandrea had 29 and Leandro had 37.

Side by side

  Leandrea Leandro
Total US births 69711,078
Most in one year 29785
Babies in 2025 under 5785
Estimated living today 67010,000
Median age today 3610
Peak year 19842025
Best rank 2,992nd girls406th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked406th
First recorded 19561906
Girls / boys 692 / 50 / 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 Leandreas alive today are over 36; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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