Leighanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leighanne has been given to 1,313 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1989, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Leighanne, 2024
1 in 478,000
Leighanne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leighanne?
Leighanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leighanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leighanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leighannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leighanne was born before 1988 — so the typical Leighanne is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,313
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (403).
Is Leighanne 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 1989 (48)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Spellings of Leighanne
Leighanne is not the most common spelling — Leighann is, with 57.6% against Leighanne's 22.0%.
Where Leighanne is used
Across 1910–2025, Leighanne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 662,722 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Leighanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leighanne around the world
Where Leighanne 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 & Wales1996–2006#5,061in 2006
- Scotland1974–1999#621in 1999
- Ireland1989–1993#516in 1993
- Canada1992–1993#2,426in 1993
- South Australia1962–1984#661in 1984
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.
Leighanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leighanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leighanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.