girls:
25.3k births since 1880
#900 (84th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1987
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
25.3k births since 1880
#1600 (79th percentile)
The name Leanna is the #1,600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,337 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #900 (84.3% percentile) for all time with 25,332 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1987.
Leanna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1987 for boys).
The name Leanna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leanna reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 58.0% percentile (ranked #347) with 331 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 331 births per million (ranked 58.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leanna ranks #697 for girls (26.4% percentile) with 148 births per million, which is 44.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leanna reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #713) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leanna".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.3% confident that Leanna is pronounced as lee-A-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-A-nuh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 AE1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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