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)
The name Leona is the #625 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 112,265 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #337 (94.1% percentile) for all time with 111,971 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,292 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 294 births since 1901.
Leona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1901 for boys).
The name Leona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leona reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 87.2% percentile (ranked #74) with 2,842 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 3,492 births per million (ranked 81.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2000, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Leona ranks #459 for girls (51.6% percentile) with 333 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leona reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #272) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1942.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leona".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.5% confident that Leona is pronounced as lee-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-oh-nuh, at 39.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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