Meaning not yet researched.
Leander: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #326 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #326 in 1882; #1,463 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leander in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,463 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #326.
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Leander: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 boys in 2025. Peak: #326 in 1882 · most boys in one year: 122 (2025).
In 2025, 122 US boys were named Leander, making it the 1,463rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 295 places from #1,758 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 94 boys named Leander in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #326, reached in 1882. The most boys given the name in a single year was 122, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,944 in 2015 and #997 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leander in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 17 babies. In all, 6,956 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 800 babies named Leander.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 926 US boys were named Leander; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leander ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #853 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leandro (11,078 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Linder, Lender and Liander are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Linder (314), Lender (27), Liander (10), Lynder (5), Leeander (5).
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 Leander in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #853 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #973 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #988 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,028 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,206 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,366 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,394 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,525 | #2,601 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 122 | #1,463 |
| 2024 | — | — | 94 | #1,758 |
| 2023 | — | — | 117 | #1,513 |
| 2022 | — | — | 113 | #1,570 |
| 2021 | — | — | 89 | #1,788 |
| 2020 | — | — | 90 | #1,728 |
| 2019 | — | — | 88 | #1,770 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,157 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,147 |
| 2016 | — | — | 84 | #1,806 |
| 2015 | — | — | 75 | #1,944 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,052 |
| 2013 | — | — | 61 | #2,174 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,252 |
| 2011 | — | — | 50 | #2,494 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,278 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,473 |
| 2008 | — | — | 50 | #2,533 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,629 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,773 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,594 |
| 2004 | — | — | 33 | #3,053 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,244 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,581 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,663 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,604 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,839 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,983 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,291 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,464 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,815 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,953 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,621 |
| 1992 | — | — | 31 | #2,388 |
| 1991 | — | — | 42 | #1,879 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,896 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,978 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,723 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,041 |
| 1986 | — | — | 39 | #1,657 |
| 1985 | — | — | 37 | #1,687 |
| 1984 | — | — | 46 | #1,413 |
| 1983 | — | — | 34 | #1,704 |
| 1982 | — | — | 47 | #1,388 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,426 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,281 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,615 | 46 | #1,381 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,657 | 46 | #1,364 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,230 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,744 | 49 | #1,249 |
| 1975 | — | — | 46 | #1,271 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,238 |
| 1973 | — | — | 54 | #1,116 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,123 |
| 1971 | — | — | 49 | #1,174 |
| 1970 | — | — | 46 | #1,232 |
| 1969 | — | — | 62 | #978 |
| 1968 | — | — | 55 | #1,000 |
| 1967 | — | — | 48 | #1,066 |
| 1966 | — | — | 55 | #987 |
| 1965 | — | — | 49 | #1,059 |
| 1964 | — | — | 54 | #1,032 |
| 1963 | — | — | 59 | #991 |
| 1962 | — | — | 68 | #922 |
| 1961 | — | — | 63 | #973 |
| 1960 | — | — | 63 | #959 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,781 | 62 | #983 |
| 1958 | — | — | 69 | #912 |
| 1957 | — | — | 72 | #894 |
| 1956 | — | — | 68 | #907 |
| 1955 | — | — | 63 | #946 |
| 1954 | — | — | 55 | #1,015 |
| 1953 | — | — | 53 | #994 |
| 1952 | — | — | 46 | #1,072 |
| 1951 | — | — | 66 | #864 |
| 1950 | — | — | 49 | #997 |
| 1949 | — | — | 60 | #895 |
| 1948 | — | — | 40 | #1,136 |
| 1947 | — | — | 50 | #1,021 |
| 1946 | — | — | 42 | #1,068 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,096 |
| 1944 | — | — | 42 | #1,014 |
| 1943 | — | — | 42 | #1,044 |
| 1942 | — | — | 58 | #862 |
| 1941 | — | — | 54 | #865 |
| 1940 | — | — | 55 | #855 |
| 1939 | — | — | 42 | #985 |
| 1938 | — | — | 41 | #1,000 |
| 1937 | — | — | 52 | #851 |
| 1936 | — | — | 47 | #902 |
| 1935 | — | — | 62 | #786 |
| 1934 | — | — | 54 | #857 |
| 1933 | — | — | 50 | #881 |
| 1932 | — | — | 70 | #752 |
| 1931 | — | — | 50 | #916 |
| 1930 | — | — | 60 | #850 |
| 1929 | — | — | 60 | #850 |
| 1928 | — | — | 70 | #777 |
| 1927 | — | — | 76 | #750 |
| 1926 | — | — | 73 | #753 |
| 1925 | — | — | 72 | #776 |
| 1924 | — | — | 84 | #725 |
| 1923 | — | — | 93 | #667 |
| 1922 | — | — | 82 | #727 |
| 1921 | — | — | 99 | #651 |
| 1920 | — | — | 91 | #671 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,195 | 82 | #687 |
| 1918 | — | — | 93 | #638 |
| 1917 | — | — | 82 | #661 |
| 1916 | — | — | 67 | #749 |
| 1915 | — | — | 68 | #720 |
| 1914 | — | — | 72 | #595 |
| 1913 | — | — | 43 | #702 |
| 1912 | — | — | 35 | #730 |
| 1911 | — | — | 25 | #621 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #770 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #698 |
| 1908 | — | — | 23 | #532 |
| 1907 | — | — | 19 | #577 |
| 1906 | — | — | 11 | #786 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #773 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #928 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #681 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #630 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,005 |
| 1900 | — | — | 16 | #640 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #910 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #783 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #539 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #611 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #772 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #703 |
| 1893 | — | — | 11 | #635 |
| 1892 | — | — | 16 | #507 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #576 |
| 1890 | — | — | 20 | #409 |
| 1889 | — | — | 22 | #386 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #715 |
| 1886 | — | — | 17 | #442 |
| 1885 | — | — | 16 | #471 |
| 1884 | — | — | 21 | #393 |
| 1883 | — | — | 18 | #425 |
| 1882 | — | — | 28 | #326 |
| 1881 | — | — | 21 | #371 |
| 1880 | — | — | 17 | #435 |
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).