girls:
28 births since 1919
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.7k births since 1880
#1433 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1880
#3275 (58th percentile)
The name Leander is the #3,275 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,730 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,433 (68.7% percentile) for all time with 6,702 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1919.
Leander has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1919 for girls). Birth data for Leander is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Leander has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leander reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 16.9% percentile (ranked #457) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 229 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leander ranks #799 for boys (12.3% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 27.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Leander reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #758) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leander".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Leander. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Leander is pronounced as lee-AN-der, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-an-der, at 19.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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