Meaning not yet researched.
Leann: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #358 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #358 in 1968; #4,232 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leann in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,232 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #358.
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Leann: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #358 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 636 (1969).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Leann, making it the 4,232nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 441 places from #3,791 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 40 girls named Leann in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #358, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 636, in 1969. For comparison, it was #2,305 in 2015 and #688 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leann in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 24,363 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 6,057 babies named Leann.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 478 US girls were named Leann; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leeann (14,334 babies since 1880), Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880) and Leanne (29,632 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leahann 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leahann (69).
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 Leann in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2015 | 81 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2008 | 149 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2006 | 168 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2003 | 187 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2002 | 184 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2000 | 217 | #978 | — | — |
| 1999 | 258 | #840 | — | — |
| 1998 | 381 | #622 | — | — |
| 1997 | 315 | #688 | — | — |
| 1996 | 189 | #996 | — | — |
| 1995 | 168 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1994 | 193 | #962 | — | — |
| 1993 | 203 | #933 | — | — |
| 1992 | 247 | #814 | — | — |
| 1991 | 260 | #787 | — | — |
| 1990 | 306 | #694 | — | — |
| 1989 | 348 | #612 | — | — |
| 1988 | 428 | #516 | — | — |
| 1987 | 401 | #519 | — | — |
| 1986 | 394 | #523 | — | — |
| 1985 | 440 | #478 | — | — |
| 1984 | 435 | #474 | — | — |
| 1983 | 440 | #463 | — | — |
| 1982 | 506 | #433 | — | — |
| 1981 | 446 | #477 | 7 | #5,251 |
| 1980 | 484 | #442 | — | — |
| 1979 | 482 | #431 | — | — |
| 1978 | 321 | #550 | — | — |
| 1977 | 359 | #519 | — | — |
| 1976 | 346 | #515 | — | — |
| 1975 | 354 | #505 | — | — |
| 1974 | 356 | #493 | — | — |
| 1973 | 397 | #461 | — | — |
| 1972 | 413 | #452 | — | — |
| 1971 | 532 | #403 | — | — |
| 1970 | 580 | #403 | — | — |
| 1969 | 636 | #368 | — | — |
| 1968 | 620 | #358 | — | — |
| 1967 | 600 | #368 | — | — |
| 1966 | 635 | #361 | — | — |
| 1965 | 617 | #368 | — | — |
| 1964 | 607 | #396 | — | — |
| 1963 | 636 | #383 | — | — |
| 1962 | 577 | #399 | — | — |
| 1961 | 549 | #415 | — | — |
| 1960 | 580 | #396 | — | — |
| 1959 | 502 | #425 | — | — |
| 1958 | 471 | #436 | — | — |
| 1957 | 522 | #402 | — | — |
| 1956 | 424 | #445 | — | — |
| 1955 | 375 | #470 | — | — |
| 1954 | 299 | #514 | — | — |
| 1953 | 271 | #522 | — | — |
| 1952 | 198 | #626 | — | — |
| 1951 | 193 | #621 | — | — |
| 1950 | 156 | #688 | — | — |
| 1949 | 153 | #677 | — | — |
| 1948 | 118 | #793 | — | — |
| 1947 | 114 | #823 | — | — |
| 1946 | 91 | #870 | — | — |
| 1945 | 65 | #961 | — | — |
| 1944 | 65 | #968 | — | — |
| 1943 | 61 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1942 | 60 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1941 | 55 | #989 | — | — |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,275 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,419 | — | — |
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).