girls:
1.2k births since 1892
#4522 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1892
#6544 (15th percentile)
The name Leoma is the #6,544 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,196 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,522 (20.9% percentile) for all time with 1,196 births since 1892.
Leoma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (first recorded for girls in 1892). Birth data for Leoma is available in 63 out of the 76 years between 1892 and 1967. 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.
For girls, Leoma reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 51 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leoma".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leoma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.1% confident that Leoma is pronounced as lee-OH-muh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lih-OH-muh, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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