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Leandrea vs Leann

American parents have registered 24,363 Leanns since 1880, against 697 Leandreas. Leann is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandrea 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

Leann has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1925 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Leandrea had 29 and Leann had 203.

Side by side

  Leandrea Leann
Total US births 69724,363
Most in one year 29636
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 67022,000
Median age today 3650
Peak year 19841963
Best rank 2,992nd girls383rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 19561925
Girls / boys 692 / 524,356 / 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 Leanns alive today are over 50; half the Leandreas are over 36. That is 14 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 Leann.