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Leandrew vs Leanne

American parents have registered 29,632 Leannes since 1880, against 1,010 Leandrews. Leanne is still ahead, with 71 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leandrew against Leanne, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leandrew Leanne

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, Leanne for 96 years and Leandrew for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leandrew Leanne
Total US births 1,01029,632
Most in one year 19801
Babies in 2025 under 571
Estimated living today 71027,000
Median age today 4248
Peak year 19591969
Best rank 1,865th boys321st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,485th
First recorded 19161929
Girls / boys 0 / 1,01029,627 / 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 Leannes alive today are over 48; half the Leandrews are over 42. That is 6 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 Leanne.