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Leanna vs Leartis

American parents have registered 25,937 Leannas since 1880, against 19 Leartises. Leanna is still ahead, with 300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Leanna 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

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 1950, when Leanna had 163 and Leartis had 8.

Side by side

  Leanna Leartis
Total US births 25,93719
Most in one year 6758
Babies in 2025 300under 5
Estimated living today 23,00012
Median age today 3172
Peak year 19901950
Best rank 389th girls2,770th boys
Rank in 2025 890thunranked
First recorded 18801950
Girls / boys 25,932 / 50 / 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 Leannas are over 31. That is 41 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 Leartis.