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Leena

#1,115 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Helena

Leena has been given to 5,785 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,115 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Leena, 2025

1 in 15,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leena: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Helena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leena means

Leena is a short form of Helena.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leena → Helena → Helen → Helena → Ἑλένη. The family’s meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements swel-.

Origin, language, and formation

Leena is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helena, Magdaleena and Lena.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Leena is pronounced /ˈleːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,785 girls were recorded with the name Leena between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,007 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,072 in 2020 to #1,115 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,250 in 2015 to #1,115 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,600
212 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,580
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,115
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,840 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leena 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,840 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leena was born before 2012 — so the typical Leena is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,785
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (2,011).

Is Leena 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
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−43
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+135
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.8%
Peak was 2019 (256)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,007
2019

Spellings of Leena

Leena is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 12.9% against Leena's 0.25%.

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 Leena is used

Across 2016–2025, Leena was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 7,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

327 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 3,704
  2. 2Illinois1 in 4,348
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 4,348
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 4,545
  5. 5Michigan1 in 4,762
  6. 6New York1 in 5,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 5,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 5,263

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.

Leena around the world

Where Leena 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
    1996–2025
    #502
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1978–2025
    #1,686
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #647
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #521
    in 2010

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.

Notable people named Leena

People whose public names include Leena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leena in other languages

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

JelaLeenLenaLeneAlenaElenaEleniEllenHelenLenkaOlenaAlenkaHelenaHeleneJelenaLenitaLénaHelkaLenkeHelénaHélèneJeļenaLenuța

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

Leena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,115
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 43
Best rank ever
#1,007
2019
Peak year
2019
256 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,785
Count in 2025
212

Names similar to Leena

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

LeelaLeeahLeesaLeeannLeeannaSienaLeenZenaLeeanneDeenaSalenaMakenaReenaCelenaIrenaAlenaMilenaTenaMalenaNeenaAdenaLeebaXenaKarena

Names with a curve like Leena

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

ViviannaLiannaElaynaAliahZainabJaelKaiKaliaMariellaSorayaKamilleMaddie

Sibling names for Leena

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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