Leanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern English form from Lee + Anne; Anne means 'grace' or 'favoured by God' (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 2018): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Leanne is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 820(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 469 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 822 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern English form from Lee + Anne; Anne means 'grace' or 'favoured by God'
Cited for this meaning 1
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Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Leanne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leanne 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #277 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 4 | Leanne | 274 |
| AU Australia | #150 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 822 | 78 | Leanne | 255 |
| US United States | #845 | 28,033 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Leanne | 469 |
| CA Canada | #456 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 3 | Leanne | 254 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Leanne | 96 |
| NZ New Zealand | #233 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 13 | Leanne | 133 |
| IE Ireland | #270 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 9 | Leanne | 95 |
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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Leanne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Modern combination of Lee andAnne, or else a respelling of Liane. Variant: Leanna.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Lee Ann.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Modern Invention Formed
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English: modern combination of LEE and ANNE , or else a respelling of LIANE .
as a word
In ang, inflected infinitive of lēan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leanne Woodb. 1971GBWelsh Plaid Cymru politician (born 1971)
- Leanne Bestb. 1980GBBritish actress
- Leanne Roweb. 1982GBBritish actress
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)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)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Leanne?
- In the etymology graph, Lianne is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Leanne mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern English form from Lee + Anne; Anne means 'grace' or 'favoured by God' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Which countries have the most people named Leanne?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Leanne in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leanne. After it come Australia, United States, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Leanne a male or female name?
- Leanne is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2018): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Leanne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,033 people named Leanne in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Leanne compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Leanne is the 277th most common given name of 404,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leanne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leanneThe 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, “Leanne” — ranked 366th in the United Kingdom (NISRA). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.