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Leann vs Leartis

American parents have registered 24,363 Leanns since 1880, against 19 Leartises. Leann is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leann Leartis

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

Leann has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1925 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1950, when Leann had 156 and Leartis had 8.

Side by side

  Leann Leartis
Total US births 24,36319
Most in one year 6368
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 22,00012
Median age today 5072
Peak year 19631950
Best rank 383rd girls2,770th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19251950
Girls / boys 24,356 / 70 / 19

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 Leartises alive today are over 72; half the Leanns are over 50. That is 22 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 Leartis.