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Leeanne

#9,818 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leeanne has been given to 3,148 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #9,818 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Leeanne, 2025

1 in 332,000

Leeanne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leeanne: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leeanne means

Leeanne is a given name.

The naming story behind Leeanne

Wikidata records Leeanne as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61732433, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,148 girls were recorded with the name Leeanne between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,162 in 1967.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,829 in 2015 to #9,818 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.

How common is Leeanne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,818
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leeanne 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leeanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leeannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leeanne was born before 1980 — so the typical Leeanne is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,056
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (682).

Is Leeanne 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
+6,822
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,989
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 1970 (85)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,162
1967

Spellings of Leeanne

Leeanne is not the most common spelling — Jeanne is, with 52.2% against Leeanne's 1.0%.

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 Leeanne is used

Across 1910–2025, Leeanne was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 99,188 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Leeanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leeanne around the world

Where Leeanne 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
    1996–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • Scotland
    1974–1998
    #558
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1977–1995
    #516
    in 1995
  • France
    2001–2015
    #4,642
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,833
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1949–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Leeanne in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leeanne. Linked forms have their own page here.

LeanneLeeannLee-Anne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leeanne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,818
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,162
1967
Peak year
1970
85 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,148
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Leeanne

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

LeeannaShianneArianneLouanneLeelaBrienneRyanneVivianneLianneLeeanaLeenaKorinneBrynneRayanneJulienneRuthanneLeeannShyanneLeeahBreanneEvonneChyanneLucienneLorianne

Names with a curve like Leeanne

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

JeniseDainaMagdaJulieannCapriceTannaJinaJohnaCristineSeanBrigetteSarita

Sibling names for Leeanne

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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