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Leandrew vs Leanna

American parents have registered 25,937 Leannas since 1880, against 1,010 Leandrews. Leanna is still ahead, with 300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandrew Leanna

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

Leanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1916, when Leandrew had 10 and Leanna had 33.

Side by side

  Leandrew Leanna
Total US births 1,01025,937
Most in one year 19675
Babies in 2025 under 5300
Estimated living today 71023,000
Median age today 4231
Peak year 19591990
Best rank 1,865th boys389th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked890th
First recorded 19161880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,01025,932 / 5

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 Leandrews alive today are over 42; half the Leannas are over 31. That is 11 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 Leanna.