Meaning not yet researched.
Leen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,776 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,776 in 2024; #1,852 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,852 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,776.
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Leen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,776 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 114 (2024).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Leen, making it the 1,852nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #1,776 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 114 girls named Leen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,776, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 114. For comparison, it was #2,005 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leen in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 6 babies. In all, 1,765 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 854 babies named Leen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,004 US girls were named Leen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 114. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leen ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #665 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leena (5,785 babies since 1880), Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880) and Leann (24,363 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Leen 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 12 | #665 | #964 |
| Ohio | 10 | #929 | #1,383 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,338 | #1,798 |
| New York | 10 | #1,377 | #1,558 |
| California | 13 | #1,706 | #1,990 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,986 | #2,512 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,215 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,192 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,670 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,368 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,965 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,834 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,201 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,486 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,091 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,806 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,742 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,706 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,527 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,393 | — | — |
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).