Name meaning & stats
Leland
Leland means “fallow land”. 38,194 US babies since 1940, peak 2007.
What it means
“fallow land”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2007
38,194 US babies were named Leland between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Leland (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 92% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2007)