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Leandrew vs Leann

American parents have registered 24,363 Leanns since 1880, against 1,010 Leandrews. Leann is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandrew 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 110 years in which either name was published, Leann for 95 years and Leandrew for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Leandrew Leann
Total US births 1,01024,363
Most in one year 19636
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 71022,000
Median age today 4250
Peak year 19591963
Best rank 1,865th boys383rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 19161925
Girls / boys 0 / 1,01024,356 / 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 Leandrews are over 42. That is 8 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: Leandrew and Leann.