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Leann vs Leanord

American parents have registered 24,363 Leanns since 1880, against 596 Leanords. Leann is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leann Leanord

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 113 years in which either name was published, Leann for 93 years and Leanord for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leann Leanord
Total US births 24,363596
Most in one year 63620
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 22,000160
Median age today 5073
Peak year 19631924
Best rank 383rd girls1,776th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19251913
Girls / boys 24,356 / 70 / 596

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 Leanords alive today are over 73; half the Leanns are over 50. That is 23 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: Leann and Leanord.