Leena

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Leena: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Leena: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #559 in 2003, and it stood at #603 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#559highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#946
1998	#817
1999	#736
2000	#930
2001	#835
2002	#620
2003	#759
2004	#676
2005	#645
2006	#739
2007	#793
2008	#899
2009	#654
2010	#709
2011	#989
2012	#1058
2013	#999
2014	#1155
2015	#942
2016	#813
2017	#1063
2018	#778
2019	#778
2020	#840
2021	#576
2022	#746
2023	#677
2024	#603

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #603 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #559 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2002–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #603 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Leena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,175 births with the name.

Leena across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Leena's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#576 (2021)	#603 (2024)	29 of 29	1,175 (1996–2024)	68 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#559 (2003)	#898 (2024)	8 of 23	26 (2002–2024)	4 (2003)

Leena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Leena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	99	4 of 10	25
2000s	397	10 of 10	40
2010s	401	10 of 10	40
2020sbusiest	278	5 of 10	56

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 56 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 25, from 43 to 68.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Leena appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #559 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Leena's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#603	65	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#677	53	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#746	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#576	68	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#840	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#778	49	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1063	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#813	47	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#942	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1155	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#999	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#989	35	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#709	52	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#654	56	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#899	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#739	42	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#645	48	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#676	43	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#759	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#620	44	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#835	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #559, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Leeroy · #605, 24y
Leeya · #2338, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chiamaka · #559, 26y
Chioma · #559, 29y
Reegan · #559, 29y
Hadiya · #558, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ameer · #559, 30y
Chiamaka · #559, 26y
Chioma · #559, 29y
Emmanuela · #559, 23y

Leena was ranked #559 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leena and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Leena without appearing here.

Leena moved ahead of

Kylie Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1155 and #1094 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #942 and #1783.
Katrina Compare
In 2015 they stood at #942 and #891 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #813 and #1525.
Carol Compare
In 1997 they stood at #946 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #817 and #1480.
Shannon Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1063 and #915 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #778 and #1436.

Moved ahead of Leena

Riley Compare
In 2013 they stood at #999 and #1075 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1155 and #763.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #778 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #840 and #460.
Aria Compare
In 2010 they stood at #709 and #773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #989 and #615.
Summer Compare
In 2004 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #689 and #320.

Moved the opposite way to Leena

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Leena

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leena went from #1031 to #603 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #559 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leena

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leena across 2 official records

Leena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Leena across 2 official records

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