Leeman

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Leeman has been given to 380 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1919, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Leeman, 2012

1 in 732,000

Leeman over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Leeman?

Leeman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leeman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leeman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leemans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leeman was born before 1930 — so the typical Leeman is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
51
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1920s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Leeman 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 1919 (21)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,669
1919

Spellings of Leeman

Leeman is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 54.3% against Leeman's 0.15%.

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 Leeman is used

Across 1910–2025, Leeman was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 227,960 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Leeman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leeman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,669
1919
Peak year
1919
21 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
380
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Leeman

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