girls:
525 births since 1884
#5191 (9th percentile)
boys:
56.8k births since 1880
#452 (90th percentile)
overall:
57.4k births since 1880
#986 (87th percentile)
The name Leland is the #986 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57,351 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #452 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 56,826 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,191 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 525 births since 1884.
Leland has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1884 for girls).
The name Leland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leland reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 69.6% percentile (ranked #168) with 761 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 761 births per million (ranked 69.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Leland ranks #461 for boys (49.5% percentile) with 308 births per million, which is 40.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Leland reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #595) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 44 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leland ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leland".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leland. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Leland is pronounced as LEE-luhnd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-luhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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