Leelynn
#8,640 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leelynn has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #8,640 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% boys, 31% girls all-time.
Babies named Leelynn, 2025
1 in 368,000
Leelynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Leelynn over time
In 2025, Leelynn went to 44% girls and 56% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Leelynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,640
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leelynn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leelynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leelynn was born before 2016 — so the typical Leelynn is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 168
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (98).
Is Leelynn 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
- −1,556
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,683
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,729
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 47.4%
- Peak was 2020 (19)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.9% average annual change
Spellings of Leelynn
Leelynn is not the most common spelling — Leeland is, with 82.0% against Leelynn's 4.2%.
Leelynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Leelynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leelynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.