Lee-Anne

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Statistics Canada, 2010

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Lee-Anne is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • AUAustralia≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 19Kfew records
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,279 people, 2020

Record sources
314 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leeanne in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lee-Anne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lee-Anne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,2791 in 78K4.3KLeeanne314
AU Australia#681≈2,700 est.≈1 in 10K5Leeanne145
ZA South Africa—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 26K—Lee-Anne70
GB United Kingdom—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 31K4Leeanne154
CA Canada—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 39K6Leeanne113
NZ New Zealand#587≈270 est.≈1 in 19K17Leeanne66
IE Ireland#782≈170 est.≈1 in 31K—Leeanne31

4,279 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lee-Anne is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Leeanne, Lééanne, Lée-Anne

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Leeanne

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Leeanne

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Leeanne

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa

    Also written Leeanne

  • Bulgarian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Leeanne

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Leeanne

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Leeanne

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Leeanne

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1960197019801990Lee-Anne Hunter, b. 1964Lee-Anne Pace, b. 1981Lee-Anne Liebenberg, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Lee-Anne,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Lee-Anne a male or female name?
Lee-Anne is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Lee-Anne?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Lee-Anne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leeanne. After it come Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Lee-Anne?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,279 people named Lee-Anne in 2020, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
How common is Lee-Anne compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Lee-Anne is the 587th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lee-anne

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lee-Anne” — the 587th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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