girls:
6.9k births since 1913
#1968 (66th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1982
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1913
#3225 (58th percentile)
The name Leandra is the #3,225 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,987 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 58.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,968 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 6,949 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1982.
Leandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Leandra is available in 104 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Leandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leandra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 31.7% percentile (ranked #564) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 135 births per million (ranked 31.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leandra ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leandra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leandra".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Leandra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Leandra is pronounced as lee-AN-druh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-AHN-druh, at 16.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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