girls:
5.3k births since 1963
#2298 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1963
#3737 (52nd percentile)
The name Leena is the #3,737 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,343 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 51.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,298 (59.8% percentile) for all time with 5,343 births since 1963.
Leena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for girls in 1963). Birth data for Leena is available in 60 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Leena reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 26.3% percentile (ranked #697) with 140 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 140 births per million (ranked 26.3% percentile). Despite a peak around 2015, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Leena ranks #738 for girls (22.1% percentile) with 122 births per million, which is 87.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leena".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Leena is pronounced as LEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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