How Many People Are Named Leena?

5,716

people named Leena are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 59,794 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,785 babies named Leena in Social Security records from 1963 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,420

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,908

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Peak Year

2019

256 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Finnish, Estonian
Pronunciation: LE-nah (Finnish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Finnish and Estonian short form of HELENA or MATLEENA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Leena in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Leena alive today is about 16 years old, and 85% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 22 in 2025.

Under 30 4,857
85%
30 to 59 850
14.9%
60 and over 9
0.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Leena first appears in the records in 1963 and was given most often in 2019, to 256 babies. In 2025, 212 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1963 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Leena has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,007, in 2019. In 2025 it ranked #1,115.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,115
Best rank#1,007 (2019)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,211 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Leena alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Leena were born in California than in any other state: about 789 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Leena was given 2.3 times as often in Virginia, 1.9 times in Illinois and 1.8 times in New York.

California 789
Texas 474
New York 436
Illinois 285
Florida 218
Virginia 216
Pennsylvania 186
Michigan 177
Ohio 161
New Jersey 152
Massachusetts 114
North Carolina 94
Washington 73
Minnesota 65
Georgia 58
Maryland 58
Missouri 36
Colorado 36
Indiana 32
Arizona 28
Wisconsin 23
Oregon 15
Tennessee 13
Connecticut 12
South Carolina 11
Utah 10
Louisiana 6
Oklahoma 5
Kansas 5
Nebraska 5

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