Leland
#494 in the US in 2025
Leland in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Leland in New Zealand
Leland never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #640 | 9 |
| 1890 | #252 | 45 |
| 1900 | #228 | 76 |
| 1910 | #242 | 97 |
| 1920 | #177 | 799 |
| 1930 | #198 | 706 |
| 1940 | #210 | 608 |
| 1950 | #281 | 559 |
| 1960 | #390 | 409 |
| 1970 | #495 | 268 |
| 1980 | #601 | 209 |
| 1990 | #609 | 272 |
| 2000 | #1,053 | 136 |
| 2010 | #325 | 964 |
| 2020 | #468 | 635 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Leland most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| California | 5,192 |
| Texas | 2,943 |
| Illinois | 2,502 |
| New York | 2,480 |
| Ohio | 2,464 |
| Michigan | 2,381 |
| Missouri | 1,922 |
| Iowa | 1,883 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,852 |
| Indiana | 1,676 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026