Leena
#1,113 for girls in 2025, 212 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 256 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,785since 1963
Leena over time
Rank among girls' names. Leena has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,113 | 212 |
| 2024 | #1,086 | 227 |
| 2023 | #1,129 | 215 |
| 2022 | #1,183 | 203 |
| 2021 | #1,135 | 217 |
| 2020 | #1,070 | 231 |
| 2019 | #1,007 | 256 |
| 2018 | #1,160 | 208 |
| 2017 | #1,208 | 199 |
| 2016 | #1,275 | 190 |
| 2015 | #1,247 | 196 |
| 2014 | #1,240 | 196 |
| 2013 | #1,171 | 205 |
| 2012 | #1,214 | 200 |
| 2011 | #1,186 | 203 |
| 2010 | #1,438 | 158 |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 |
| 2008 | #1,381 | 173 |
| 2007 | #1,396 | 171 |
| 2006 | #1,514 | 145 |
| 2005 | #1,599 | 127 |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 |
| 2002 | #1,654 | 111 |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 |
| 2000 | #1,744 | 100 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 |
| 1994 | #1,999 | 70 |
| 1993 | #2,152 | 62 |
| 1992 | #3,091 | 37 |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,928 | 30 |
| 1980 | #2,486 | 38 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leena! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Leena is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#752 · 1 in 4,278
- Pennsylvania#763 · 1 in 4,321
- Oklahoma#784 · 1 in 3,358
- Minnesota#873 · 1 in 4,908
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,808
Best ever in a state: #394 in Connecticut, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #752 | 21 | 1 in 4,278 |
| Pennsylvania | #763 | 12 | 1 in 4,321 |
| Oklahoma | #784 | 5 | 1 in 3,358 |
| Minnesota | #873 | 5 | 1 in 4,908 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Virginia | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,508 |
| Georgia | #1,083 | 8 | 1 in 6,006 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 9 | 1 in 6,403 |
| Florida | #1,109 | 12 | 1 in 7,226 |
| Texas | #1,178 | 22 | 1 in 7,604 |
| Michigan | #1,278 | 5 | 1 in 8,414 |
| North Carolina | #1,376 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
| California | #1,388 | 20 | 1 in 10,186 |
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See more about Leena
- 27 spots since 2024 (#1,086 → #1,113)
- 43 spots since 2020 (#1,070 → #1,113)
- 134 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #1,113)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2019 at #1,007 (256 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,556 girls born in 2019 were named Leena (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,581 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.8% of all girls named Leena (2,011) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 46 | #3,959 (1966) | #5,533 |
| 1970s | 195 | #2,859 (1978) | #3,596 |
| 1980s | 358 | #2,266 (1984) | #2,710 |
| 1990s | 561 | #1,845 (1998) | #2,472 |
| 2000s | 1,309 | #1,381 (2008) | #1,597 |
| 2010s | 2,011 | #1,007 (2019) | #1,215 |
| 2020s | 1,305 | #1,070 (2020) | #1,119 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leena in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 9,326 of them was named Leena, which outranked 93.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).