Le-An

given name · Latin script

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

Le-An is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), fro.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 268K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 29K
  • DKDenmark1 in 56K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 people, est.

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lean in US United States and Léan in ZA South Africa.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Le-An: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Le-An
  1. Middle Englishlenen“to lean”(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishhleonian“to lean“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*hlinēn(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*hlināną“to lean“to lean, incline”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ḱley-(measured from records)
  6. Proto-Germanicwith(measured from records)
  7. Proto-Indo-Europeanwith(measured from records)

From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.

Sources 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Le-An counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Le-An is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,700 est.≈1 in 29K—Le-An73
US United States1,2401 in 268K938Lean260
BR Brazil8231 in 257K823—5
ZA South Africa≈430 est.≈1 in 131K—Léan27
AR Argentina≈290 est.≈1 in 154K31—2
DK Denmark1041 in 56K95——
AL Albania491 in 63K46——
HR Croatia401 in 106K88——
SI Slovenia251 in 84K26—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Le-An is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Netherlands

    Also written Léan, Lean, Lê-An

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain

    Also written Leañ, Leàn, Lean, Leãn, Leán

6 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Le-An under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Le-An mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), fro… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Le-An a male or female name?
Le-An is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Le-An have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Le-An in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Le-An.
How common is the name Le-An?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,240 people named Le-An in 2020, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Le-An”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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