Leeanna
Feminine · “clearing”
Leeanna is two plain names joined: Lee, an English word for a clearing that became a surname and then a name for either sex, and Anna, which is Hebrew for grace and one of the oldest women's names in Europe. The compound is American and belongs to the middle of the last century.
How old is the name Leeanna?
Leeanna first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Leeanna alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 3,700 people named Leeanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leeanna most popular?
Leeanna peaked in 1989, reaching #1288 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 3,470 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
Where it comes from
From leah to Leeanna
The story of Leeanna
American families have been building compound girls' names since the nineteenth century, and the practice peaked in the middle of the twentieth: Leeanna, Leanne, Roseanne, Maryann, Bobbie Jo. Often the point was to carry two relatives at once, and often the compound was written as one word on the certificate and said as two at home. Lee itself came from an English surname and had already been used for boys and girls alike for a century; Anna arrived far earlier, through the traditional name of the Virgin's mother.
Meaning
clearing, joined to grace
Old English leah, a clearing or meadow, gives Lee; Hebrew Channah, grace or favor, gives Anna through Greek and Latin. Both halves are documented and neither is disputed.
How the name formed
- leah
- Lee
- Leeanna
Related forms: Leanna · Liane
Pronouncing Leeanna
lee-AN-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families say LEE-an-uh with the weight in front, treating it as two names, and both are ordinary.
Nicknames for Leeanna
High
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
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 1989122 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1288reached in 1989
- Change vs 2023
- −3.4%28 in 2025, from 29
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.
Leeanna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leanna in English — spelling variant
- Liane in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Leeannas among us
people named Leeanna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Leeanna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Leeanna
- #4758
- Leeanna on the 2025 chart
- #575
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Leeanna went to 28 girls in 2025, but Leanna, Leana and Leeana and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 419, which makes it the 575th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,183 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,836 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Leeanna 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 Marlis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leeanna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlis climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlis's path sketches the road Leeanna is walking now.
Leeanna 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 Leeanna is headed
Leeanna is easing off slowly — about 25% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Leeanna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leeanna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries two complete names, so the child has two formal options as well as short forms.
- Both halves are transparent, common and easy to spell.
- It works in English, French and Spanish households with almost no adjustment.
- Leanna, Leeanna, Leanne and Liana all circulate and are near-identical in speech.
- Compound names get split into two fields by forms and come back wrong.
- It reads as of the middle of the last century, which is heritage to some families and age to others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leeannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,700 people named Leeanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Leeanna?
- Leeanna is one of 5 recorded spellings. Leanna is the more common one — 300 births in 2025 against 28 for Leeanna.
- How popular is the name Leeanna in 2025?
- Leeanna ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leeanna?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Leeanna — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leeanna with classmates?
- Leeanna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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