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Leanna vs Leanord

American parents have registered 25,937 Leannas since 1880, against 596 Leanords. Leanna is still ahead, with 300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leanna 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

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 Leanna had 33 and Leanord had 15.

Side by side

  Leanna Leanord
Total US births 25,937596
Most in one year 67520
Babies in 2025 300under 5
Estimated living today 23,000160
Median age today 3173
Peak year 19901924
Best rank 389th girls1,776th boys
Rank in 2025 890thunranked
First recorded 18801913
Girls / boys 25,932 / 50 / 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 Leannas are over 31. That is 42 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: Leanna and Leanord.