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Leandre

Masculine · “Lion-man”

Leandre is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,659 boys against 15 girls since 1880.

1951high 1991
#5208 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare18 boys in 2025

Leandre reaches American records by two roads at once. It is the French Léandre, from the Greek Leandros, the young man who swam the Hellespont nightly to reach Hero and drowned in a storm. It is also, in the same decades, Le- plus Andre, built by the same American system that made Ledarius and Lemarcus.

How old is the name Leandre?

Leandre first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Leandre alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,600 people named Leandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Leandre most popular?

Leandre peaked in 1991, reaching #1557 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 3,651 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Leandre

Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos and Leander a young man of Abydos; he swam the Hellespont each night guided by her lamp until a storm put it out and he drowned, and she threw herself from her tower. Musaeus told the story in late antiquity, Marlowe and Chapman retold it in English, and Byron swam the strait himself in 1810 to prove it possible. The name went into French as Léandre and Spanish as Leandro, both ordinary. Its American life is smaller and more recent: Leandre appears chiefly from the 1970s onward, and its early-1990s peak sits inside the years when Andre and its extended family were at their most productive.

Meaningscholars disagree

Lion-man

Greek Leandros is a settled compound of leōn, lion, and anēr, andros, man, and French Léandre descends from it directly. Whether an American Leandre of the 1990s belongs to that line or to the Le- prefix family, where Andre is the base and Le- carries no meaning, cannot be determined from the record. Both are live and the two produce the same spelling.

How the name formed

  1. Leandros
  2. Leander
  3. Léandre
  4. Leandre

Related forms: Λέανδρος · Léandre · Leandro · Leandro · Leander

Pronouncing Leandre

lee-AHN-dray

Three syllables in the French-derived saying, stress in the middle. Many American bearers say lee-AN-der or luh-AHN-dre. French Léandre is closer to lay-AHNDR with the final e barely sounded.

Nicknames for Leandre

Moderate

AndreThe back, a complete French name of its own
LeeThe front, and one of the plainest American short forms
LeoDrawn from the lion element, though it is a separate name
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1951–202555280551819512025

US babies named Leandre per year from 1951 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#15571950s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1951
Most boys named
199155 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1557reached in 1991
Change vs 2024
0.0%18 in 2025, from 18
Leandre sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1991, with 55 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Leandre in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Λέανδρος in Greek — transliteration
  • Léandre in French — same name
  • Leandro in Spanish — related form
  • Leandro in Italian — related form
  • Leander in English — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.

Leandres among us

1,600

people named Leandre are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Leandre

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Audwin test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leandre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Audwin climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Audwin's path sketches the road Leandre is walking now.

40%chance Leandre will feel dated by 2040
Leandre, aligned on its peakAudwin· peak 1958not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsAudwin · #11862Leandre today
Leandre today is about where Audwin stood in 1992 — 34 years past a #1557-sized peak. By 2007, Audwin had settled around #11862.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Leandre 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

Leandre beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Leandre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Leandrethis name18#5208Rodger18#5208Eusebio18#5208Boy18#5208Randal18#5208

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The Greek meaning is settled and unusually vivid.
  • Andre and Lee are both instantly usable short forms.
  • It has one of the better stories in classical myth attached to it.
What to consider
  • There is no single agreed American pronunciation, and bearers get several.
  • Leandre, Leander, Leandro and Deandre are close enough to be confused.
  • Whether the name is French or an American formation cannot be told from the spelling.

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Frequently asked

How many Leandres are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Leandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Leandre in 2025?
Leandre ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Leandre?
About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Leandre — 18 in all.
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Leandre will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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Rodger#5208 · Eusebio#5208 · Boy#5208 · Randal#5208 · Gable#5208 · Jessy#5208 · Kelby#5208 · Jens#5208

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