Leanne
Feminine · “meadow and grace”
Leanne is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 29,627 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Leanne joins Lee to Anne, which makes it two names in one — a meadow and a Hebrew word for grace, assembled in twentieth-century English.
How old is the name Leanne?
Leanne first appears in US birth records in 1929 — 96 years ago. The typical Leanne alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 27,000 people named Leanne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leanne most popular?
Leanne peaked in 1966, reaching #320 nationally. Today it ranks #2485, 2,165 places below that high. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From leah to Leanne
The story of Leanne
English-speaking families of the twentieth century built compound names freely — Leanne, Roseanne, Julianne, Maryanne — joining a short first element to Anne. Leanne rose in Britain and America from the 1950s, was very common in Britain and Australia in the 1970s, and peaked in American records around 1978.
Meaning
meadow and grace
A compound of Lee, from the Old English leah, 'meadow' or 'clearing', and Anne, from the Hebrew channah, 'grace'. Both parts have transparent and undisputed meanings; the joining is a modern English practice rather than an inherited compound.
How the name formed
- leah
- Lee Anne
- Leanne
Related forms: Leann · Lianne · Liane
Pronouncing Leanne
lee-ANN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Leanne, Leann and LeeAnn are said identically.
Nicknames for Leanne
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
- 1929
- Most girls named
- 1966765 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #320reached in 1966
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%71 in 2025, from 71
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.
Leanne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leann in English — spelling variant
- Lianne in English — spelling variant
- Liane in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Leannes among us
people named Leanne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was named Leanne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Leanne
- #2485
- Leanne on the 2025 chart
- #879
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Leanne went to 71 girls in 2025, but Leeanne is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 81, which makes it the 879th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,606 places above the chart.
- Leanne71
- Leeanne10
About 1 girl in 19,843 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,638 for Leanne itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The James test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leanne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: James climbed just as high around 1928, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and James's path sketches the road Leanne is walking now.
Leanne 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 Leanne is headed
Leanne 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.
Leanne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leanne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves have transparent, undisputed and attractive meanings.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- Lee and Annie are two short forms at very different registers.
- Several spellings and spacings of the sound are in use.
- It is a modern compound rather than an inherited name.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leannes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 27,000 people named Leanne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Leanne?
- Leanne is the most-used spelling in US records — 71 of the 81 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Leeanne.
- How popular is the name Leanne in 2025?
- Leanne ranks #2485 among US girl names in 2025, with 71 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leanne?
- About 1 in every 22,638 US girls born in 2025 was named Leanne — 71 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leanne with classmates?
- Leanne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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