boys:
431 births since 1882
#4155 (9th percentile)
overall:
431 births since 1882
#7308 (6th percentile)
The name Leonce is the #7,308 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 431 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,155 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 431 births since 1882.
Leonce first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Leonce is available in 54 out of the 127 years between 1882 and 2008. 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 boys, Leonce reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #531) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonce".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Leonce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Leonce is pronounced as lee-OHNS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lay-ahns, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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