girl's name

Leena

  • Origin Finnish
  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 8,982

England and Wales

#504

2025 births

Leena is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 212 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Leena is a name of Finnish origin.
  • Peaked in 2019, when 256 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 15,638 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1963.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Leena over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

2,011
'60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Leena by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1960s 46
1970s 195
1980s 358
1990s 561
2000s 1,309
2010s 2,011
2020s (to 2025) 1,305

How popular is Leena?

In 2025, Leena was given to 212 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Leena is used

England & Wales #504 80 in 2025
Scotland #580 5 in 2023
Canada #654 44 in 2024
Ireland #1,017 3 in 2024
United States #1,114 212 in 2025
France #1,670 20 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Leena is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Léena Léena is a rare spelling of Leena, written with an acute accent and recorded about 5 times, mostly in France. 5

Names that peaked alongside Leena

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Leena also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Leena over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Leena in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Belarusian
Alena
Danish
Lene
Estonian
Leen
Finnish
Lenita
French
Hélène
Greek
Eleni
Norwegian
Lene
Serbian
Jelena
Ukrainian
Olena
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Jela

Sibling names for Leena

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Leena — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Leena

How popular is the name Leena?

In 2025, Leena was given to 212 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Leena a girl's or a boy's name?

Leena is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Leena?

Leena has 2 syllables.

When was Leena most popular?

Leena peaked in 2019, when 256 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Leena a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Leena currently ranks #504 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.