Meaning not yet researched.
Leana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #797 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #797 in 1880; #2,424 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,424 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #797.
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Leana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #797 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 100 (2010).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Leana, making it the 2,424th most common girls’ name of the year, down 295 places from #2,129 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 90 girls named Leana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #797, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,540 in 2015 and #1,978 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leana in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,968 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 806 babies named Leana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 717 US girls were named Leana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leana ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,283 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lena (146,805 babies since 1880), Leona (113,624 babies since 1880), Leanna (25,937 babies since 1880) and Liana (20,666 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,283 | #1,282 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,796 | #1,429 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,985 | #2,509 |
| California | 7 | #2,656 | #2,624 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 2010 | 100 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1905 | 15 | #990 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #819 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #931 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #927 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #805 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #978 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #797 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).