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Leeana vs Leesa

American parents have registered 4,124 Leesas since 1880, against 822 Leeanas. But in 2025 it was Leeana that was commoner, 11 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leeana against Leesa, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leeana Leesa

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 80 years in which either name was published, Leesa for 54 years and Leeana for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leeana Leesa
Total US births 8224,124
Most in one year 35318
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 8103,700
Median age today 1759
Peak year 20111956
Best rank 4,151st girls525th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19671946
Girls / boys 822 / 04,124 / 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 Leesas alive today are over 59; half the Leeanas are over 17. 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.

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