Leenah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LEE-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Leenah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “tender; young palm tree”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Leenah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Lina
“tender; young palm tree”
The word linah, a kind of palm tree, occurs in the Qur'an (59:5).
Is Leenah a girl's or a boy's name?
Leenah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leenah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2021, with 5 girls.
Leenah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
How popular is Leenah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Leenah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Leenah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,866 girls in the US were given Leenah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #195, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Leenah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
Names like Leenah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Izzah, Hiba, Aaminah, Ayra, Rahma, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Leenah
Names related to Leenah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Leenah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leenah, updated 20 October 2026.