# Leena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,785 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,785 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,255, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 203 | 1,187 |
| 2012 | 200 | 1,217 |
| 2013 | 205 | 1,174 |
| 2014 | 196 | 1,242 |
| 2015 | 196 | 1,250 |
| 2016 | 190 | 1,277 |
| 2017 | 199 | 1,209 |
| 2018 | 208 | 1,161 |
| 2019 | 256 | 1,007 |
| 2020 | 231 | 1,072 |
| 2021 | 217 | 1,135 |
| 2022 | 203 | 1,188 |
| 2023 | 215 | 1,133 |
| 2024 | 227 | 1,089 |
| 2025 | 212 | 1,115 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 989 |
| 2012 | 33 | 1,058 |
| 2013 | 36 | 999 |
| 2014 | 30 | 1,155 |
| 2015 | 38 | 942 |
| 2016 | 47 | 813 |
| 2017 | 33 | 1,063 |
| 2018 | 49 | 778 |
| 2019 | 48 | 778 |
| 2020 | 43 | 840 |
| 2021 | 68 | 576 |
| 2022 | 49 | 746 |
| 2023 | 53 | 677 |
| 2024 | 65 | 603 |
| 2025 | 80 | 502 |

## People named Leena

- Leena Lehtolainen, Finnish crime writer
- Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboardist
- Leena Alam, Afghani actress
- Leena Nair, British businesswoman with Indian origin
- Leena Krohn, Finnish writer (born 1947)
- Leena Yadav, filmmaker
- Leena Meri, Finnish politician
- Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish ufologist, parapsychologist and author (1939–2015)
- Leena Günther, German athlete
- Leena La Bianca, American actress
- Leena Khamis, association football player
- Leena Manimekalai, Film Maker, poet

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.