Leean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leean has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 1955. 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 2009, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Leean, 2013
1 in 729,000
Leean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leean?
Leean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 351,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,435 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leean was born before 1993 — so the typical Leean is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 27.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 83
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Leean 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 2009 (9)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Spellings of Leean
Leean is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 27.2% against Leean'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.
Leean around the world
Where Leean 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.
- Scotland1980–1980#539in 1980
- South Australia1957–1972#722in 1972
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Leean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.