Leandra
Feminine · “lion man”
Leandra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 7,029 girls against 38 boys since 1880.
Leandra is the feminine of Leander, a Greek name meaning lion man — and Leander is the young man of the myth who swam a strait every night until the light went out.
How old is the name Leandra?
Leandra first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Leandra alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 6,700 people named Leandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leandra most popular?
Leandra peaked in 1989, reaching #734 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 2,843 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Leandros to Leandra
The story of Leandra
Leander swam the Hellespont nightly to reach Hero, guided by a lamp she set in her tower, and drowned when a storm put it out — a story Ovid told and Marlowe retold. The name entered Christian use through an early Spanish saint, Leander of Seville, and Spanish and Italian have used Leandro and Leandra since. It reaches American records with Hispanic and Italian families and with English speakers who like the sound.
Meaning
lion man
From Greek leon, a lion, and andros, a man; the same second element closes Alexander and opens Andrew. The feminine adds the ordinary -a ending.
How the name formed
- Leandros
- Leander
- Leandra
Related forms: Leandra · Leandra · Leandros
Pronouncing Leandra
lee-AN-drah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Spanish gives leh-AHN-drah.
Nicknames for Leandra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most girls named
- 1989269 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #734reached in 1989
- Change vs 2023
- +23.5%42 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leandra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leandra in Spanish — same name
- Leandra in Italian — same name
- Leandros in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Leandras among us
people named Leandra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Leandra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nicki test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leandra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nicki climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nicki's path sketches the road Leandra is walking now.
Leandra sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Leandra is headed
Leandra should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Leandra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leandra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning with a genuinely memorable story attached.
- Lea and Andra are both complete short forms with their own lives.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish and Italian speakers read it correctly at once.
- The story behind the name ends in a drowning, which readers of Ovid will know.
- Leandra, Leanda and Leandre are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close to Leanne and Alexandra in an American ear.
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Feminine · #3577 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Leandras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,700 people named Leandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leandra in 2025?
- Leandra ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leandra?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Leandra — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leandra with classmates?
- Leandra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Leandra
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