Boy
Leland
As a boy's name, Leland is understood to mean "meadow land". It settled in after its 1920s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 2007.
Old EnglishOld English "leah" (meadow) + "land"
EtymologyMeaning "meadow land"
Births by decade
1900s
776
1910s
4,430
1920s
8,086
1930s
6,317
1940s
6,279
1950s
5,268
1960s
3,551
1970s
2,296
1980s
2,115
1990s
1,905
2000s
4,615
2010s
6,810
Peaked in the 1920s · 52,448 total U.S. births since 1900