Leona

girls:

112k births since 1880

#337 (94th percentile)

boys:

294 births since 1901

#4292 (6th percentile)

overall:

112.3k births since 1880

#625 (92nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leona".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
111,971
Peak Births
3,335
Peak Year
1916
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
87.2%
Current Percentile
51.6%
Peak Rank
#67
Current Rank
#459
Female statistics
Total Births
294
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
1910
First Recorded
1901
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#219
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Leona

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leona. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.5% confident that Leona is pronounced as lee-OH-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-oh-nuh, at 39.5% confidence.

LEE-oh-nuh (3 syllables)
Verified
39.5% confidence
L IY1 OW0 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Leona. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Leona, please vote using the thumbs up button.

lee-OH-nee-uh (4 syllables)
1 name 1.6k births
L IY0 OW1 N IY0 AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

lihl-YOH-nuh (3 syllables)
2 names 281 births
L IH0 L Y OW1 N AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 OW1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.