girls:
23 births since 1971
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
24 births since 1919
#4562 (0th percentile)
overall:
47 births since 1919
#7692 (1st percentile)
The name Leal is the #7,692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,562 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1971.
Leal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Leal is available in 8 out of the 64 years between 1919 and 1982. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Leal is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 1982, 100.0% of babies named Leal were girls. Interestingly, until around 1971, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1919 to 1970), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1971 to 1982).
For boys, Leal reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #528) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1948.
For girls, Leal reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #790) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leal".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Leal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Leal is pronounced as LEE-uhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leel, at 34.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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