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Leland

Boy · English surname

Leland

Say it: LEE-lund

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Meaning

From an English surname, probably Old English 'fallow land'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Used in the US since the 1800s.

Its wave through time

Timeless: in steady use for over a century

In the United States

02040608018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1921per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 55,370 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 1921, about 1 in 1,300 boys
  • 641 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

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Famous bearers

  • Leland Stanford, American businessman

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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