Leiny
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leiny has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2010, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Leiny, 2014
1 in 741,000
Leiny 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leiny?
Leiny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leiny sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leiny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leinys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leiny was born before 2008 — so the typical Leiny is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (21).
Is Leiny 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (9)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Leiny
Leiny is not the most common spelling — Lily is, with 19.6% against Leiny's <0.01%.
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.
Leiny around the world
Where Leiny 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.
- France2003–2012#3,855in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Leiny by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leiny
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leiny
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.