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Leandro vs Leanora

American parents have registered 11,078 Leandros since 1880, against 1,469 Leanoras. Leandro is still ahead, with 785 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leandro Leanora

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 126 years in which either name was published, Leandro for 103 years and Leanora for 23 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Leandro Leanora
Total US births 11,0781,469
Most in one year 78528
Babies in 2025 78519
Estimated living today 10,000830
Median age today 1052
Peak year 20251927
Best rank 406th boys1,559th girls
Rank in 2025 406th6,116th
First recorded 19061897
Girls / boys 0 / 11,0781,469 / 0

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 Leanoras alive today are over 52; half the Leandros are over 10. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leandro Leanora
England and Wales 65016

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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