girls:
29.5k births since 1929
#830 (85th percentile)
overall:
29.5k births since 1929
#1487 (81st percentile)
The name Leanne is the #1,487 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,491 recorded births since 1929. This represents the 80.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #830 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 29,491 births since 1929.
Leanne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1929 (first recorded for girls in 1929).
For girls, Leanne reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 59.1% percentile (ranked #313) with 454 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 454 births per million (ranked 59.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leanne ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leanne".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Leanne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Leanne is pronounced as lee-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-an, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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