Leanah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leanah has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Leanah, 2018
1 in 703,000
Leanah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Leanah?
Leanah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leanah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leanahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leanah was born before 2013 — so the typical Leanah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 87.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 81
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 87.7% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Leanah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2014 (13)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.6% average annual change
Spellings of Leanah
Leanah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 32.8% against Leanah's 0.01%.
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 Leanah is used
Across 1910–2025, Leanah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
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. Leanah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leanah around the world
Where Leanah 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 & Wales2008–2008#4,524in 2008
- France2012–2025#6,896in 2025
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Leanah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leanah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leanah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.