Leana

given name · French · Latin script

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

Leana is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 26◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 30
  • GRGreece1 in 39

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.3M ●

across 13 countries

#6 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
583 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Greece

Spellings & scripts●

ЕленаCyrillic · Russian●34M records
ElenaLatin · Spanish●6.6M records
ΕλενηGreek · Greek●827K records
ילנהHebrew · Hebrew●151K records
ᲔლენეGeorgian · Georgian●97K records
리나Hangul · Korean●4.4K records
เรณThai · Thai●3.5K records
ሄለንEthiopic · Amharic●632 records
ԱլենArmenian · Armenian●613 records
হেলেনBengali · Bangla●82 records

21 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

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

Meaning & origin●

weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Leana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#239,876,69313M rec.—#3Елена275
UA Ukraine#210,421,04210M rec.—listedОлена153
IN India#255,827,3001.8M rec.—481Renu203
AR Argentina#502,854,3531.8M rec.—134KElena150
MX Mexico#221,760,6491.4M rec.—7.2KElena227
GB United Kingdom#111,663,9521.6M rec.—38Alan288
PE Peru#32733,299628K rec.——Elena96
AU Australia#17692,457660K rec.—106Helen301
TR Türkiye#131634,80676K rec.—3.3KЕлена60
VE Venezuela#40573,195432K rec.——Elena101
PH Philippines#12507,290485K rec.—27KHelen144
FR France#28506,990746K rec.1 in 134507KHelene362

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

Languages●

  • French72K55%
  • English27K21%
  • Portuguese11K9%
  • Spanish6.3K5%
  • German2.2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French71,81555%
English27,20721%
Portuguese11,1069%
Spanish6,3425%
German2,2312%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Leana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name36K records spelled Leana17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Léana, Le'Ana, Le-Ana, Lëaña, Lèana

  • Portuguese given name21K records spelled Leana7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Nicaragua

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Léana, Lêana, Leaña, Léána, Lëana

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Leana2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand

    Also written Léana

  • Russian given name1.3K records spelled Leana22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

    Also written Леана, Léana

  • Finnish given name909 records spelled Leana5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Léana

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name803 records spelled Leana6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Léana

  • Romanian given name301 records spelled Leana4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy, Philippines

    Also written Leană, Lèana, Léana

42 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.

Other recorded senses●

Leana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Viña virgen, en flor

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In ang, genitive plural 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.

Over time●

0255075100190019502000100 · 2010

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Leana in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18806
18846
18855
18869
18889
18899
18927
18935
18949
18959
189611
18975
18986
18995
190013
19018
19025
190310
190420
190515
190610
190713
19089
190915
191019
19117
191214
191311
191420
191518
191622
191724
191835
191922
192014
192115
192232
192320
192419
192522
192619
192716
192825
192912
193013
193119
193215
193312
19345
193513
193614
193713
193813
193914
194014
194119
194211
194313
194418
194519
194613
194726
194812
194918
195024
195118
195229
195317
195427
195520
195623
195720
195828
195929
196023
196120
196223
196335
196422
196524
196619
196723
196827
196931
197036
197138
197237
197324
197440
197531
197643
197740
197863
197946
198052
198144
198248
198334
198454
198556
198647
198745
198868
198966
199078
199170
199268
199356
199457
199559
199669
199768
199863
199963
200070
200160
200277
200381
200464
200592
200697
200772
200897
200996
2010100
201177
201274
201392
201487
201571
201665
201774
201860
201972
202077
202159
202273
202373
202490
202574

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 140 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Lenuța Sansu, b. 1950Leana Pignedoli, b. 1956Lenuța Ciulei, b. 1958Leana de Bruin, b. 1977Leana Jalukse, b. 1979Leana Wen, b. 1983Lenuta Simiuc, b. 1994Leana Lovings, b. 1997Leana Zaugg, b. 2000Leana Claude, b. 2004

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 76 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Leana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,770
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.6K#1,212
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022726—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—721#10,342
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—696#11,655
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—622#2,181
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—285#1,701
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024252#226
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010211#88,020
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020199#97,730
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021192—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000168#99,725

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 478 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leana?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Leana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Leana have the most bearers?
Leana is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Leana compared with other names?
In Russia, Leana is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Leana a male or female name?
Leana 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.
What does the name Leana mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Leana” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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