Girls' name · peaked in 1969

Leanne name popularity since 1925

29,632 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Leanne. Half of them were born in 1974 or earlier, so the typical Leanne is about 52 years old in 2026. Leanne peaked in 1969 as the #321 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 29,632; Named Leanne, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1969; #321 for girls that year
Typical age: About 52; Median birth year 1974
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,503 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 29,627 girls · 5 boys
Most popular in: Washington; 2.50× its national share

Peak year is the year Leanne made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Leanne births per year, 1925–2025

1969 was the biggest year for Leanne both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1951 and 1956, Leanne became 1.8× more common, from 1 in 8,340 baby girls to 1 in 4,530.
Steepest fall: Between 1997 and 2002, its share of baby girls fell by 47%, from 1 in 5,960 to 1 in 11,300.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Leanne's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Leanne.

Decade by decade

Babies named Leanne in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	7	0	–
1930s	313	0	#1,402
1940s	1,160	0	#730
1950s	3,587	0	#468
1960s	7,066	0	#331
1970s	5,063	0	#426
1980s	5,765	5	#393
1990s	3,433	0	#681
2000s	1,609	0	#1,423
2010s	1,180	0	#1,807
2020–25	444	0	#2,503

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

32.0% of babies named Leanne from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Leanne is most popular

The index compares Leanne's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Leanne.

State	Index	Babies
Washington	2.50×	1,081
Massachusetts	2.32×	1,426
Minnesota	1.75×	825
Oregon	1.71×	413
Iowa	1.62×	533

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Leanne and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Leanne (this page)	29,627	1969
Leann	24,356	1968

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Leanne's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Leanne.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Leanne (1969).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data