Leland Boy Name

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The name Leland is of English origin, and means meadow land. The table below indicates the number of times the name Leland has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Leland**
Use of the Name Leland for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
41,320	12,107	3,854	625	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Leland has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Leland last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1998, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Leland**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	664	9
1881	629	9
1882	527	13
1883	376	21
1884	514	14	979	6
1885	373	23
1886	327	27
1887	372	20
1888	292	37
1889	329	29
1890	252	45
1891	270	36
1892	237	57
1893	222	60
1894	233	55
1895	244	54
1896	233	61
1897	218	60
1898	250	50
1899	211	62
1900	230	76
1901	206	68
1902	242	58
1903	208	75
1904	226	69
1905	240	66
1906	184	99
1907	220	86
1908	240	78
1909	229	91
1910	242	97
1911	225	127
1912	218	252
1913	200	337
1914	202	414
1915	186	596
1916	199	573
1917	192	623
1918	187	692
1919	192	668
1920	177	798
1921	171	866
1922	183	771
1923	174	805
1924	185	775
1925	173	860
1926	186	771
1927	177	826
1928	181	788
1929	185	757
1930	198	705
1931	188	696
1932	202	632
1933	189	643
1934	190	667
1935	201	622
1936	203	595
1937	214	554
1938	209	587
1939	213	569
1940	210	607
1941	211	635
1942	218	671
1943	214	674
1944	230	598
1945	248	536
1946	264	565
1947	260	655
1948	248	670
1949	258	628
1950	278	565
1951	280	587
1952	280	603
1953	310	531
1954	316	514
1955	305	565
1956	325	515
1957	344	481
1958	358	458
1959	383	426
1960	390	408
1961	381	429
1962	408	387
1963	426	358
1964	398	399
1965	414	356
1966	413	336
1967	427	315
1968	476	254
1969	454	283
1970	495	268
1971	517	248
1972	497	253
1973	504	240
1974	538	221
1975	568	202
1976	563	207
1977	583	207
1978	547	230
1979	594	207
1980	602	208
1981	587	211
1982	639	182
1983	586	208
1984	597	202
1985	688	166
1986	639	196
1987	621	214
1988	584	250
1989	605	263
1990	609	272
1991	625	267
1992	697	221
1993	724	205
1994	829	164
1995	807	175
1996	912	144
1997	849	167
1998	989	139
Totals:		41,320		6

During the last 125 years, parents have used Leland as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Leland appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 119 times during the last 125 years.

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