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Leana

#2,424 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Leana has been given to 4,968 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,424 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Leana, 2025

1 in 44,800

Leana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leana means

Leana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leana is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,968 girls were recorded with the name Leana between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2010; its best national rank was #797 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,312 in 2020 to #2,424 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,540 in 2015 to #2,424 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,800
74 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,424
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,054 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leana was born before 1992 — so the typical Leana is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,069
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (806).

Is Leana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−295
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−112
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+116
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.0%
Peak was 2010 (100)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#797
1880

Spellings of Leana

Leana is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 11.1% against Leana's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leana is used

Across 2016–2025, Leana was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 22,743 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Leana around the world

Where Leana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1978–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1980–2025
    #188
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #633
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leana

People whose public names include Leana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,424
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 112
Best rank ever
#797
1880
Peak year
2010
100 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,968
Count in 2025
74

Names similar to Leana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Leana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Leana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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