Leighann
#14,179 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leighann has been given to 3,441 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #14,179 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 119 recorded.
Babies named Leighann, 2025
1 in 553,000
Leighann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leighann?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,179
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leighann 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leighann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leighanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leighann was born before 1988 — so the typical Leighann is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,441
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (1,048).
Is Leighann 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
- −4,889
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,383
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −9,248
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.21×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 5.0%
- Peak was 1986 (119)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.6% average annual change
Spellings of Leighann
Leighann is not the most common spelling — Leighton is, with 42.3% against Leighann's 11.7%.
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 Leighann is used
Across 1910–2025, Leighann was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 104,504 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 50,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 3New York1 in 50,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 5California1 in 100,000
- 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Ohio1 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. Leighann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leighann around the world
Where Leighann 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 & Wales1996–2005#3,970in 2005
- Scotland1974–2001#627in 2001
- Ireland1984–1998#498in 1998
- Canada1991–2000#2,195in 2000
- South Australia1959–1978#626in 1978
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Leighann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leighann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Leighann
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leighann, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Leighann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.