girls:
6.2k births since 1880
#2115 (63rd percentile)
boys:
405 births since 1914
#4181 (9th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1880
#3329 (57th percentile)
The name Leone is the #3,329 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,574 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,115 (63.0% percentile) for all time with 6,169 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,181 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 405 births since 1914.
Leone has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys). Birth data for Leone is available in 123 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (110 years for girls and 39 years for boys). 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 Leone has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 27.3% of babies named Leone were girls. Interestingly, until around 1991, the name was more popular for girls (98.5% girls from 1880 to 1990), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (74.8% boys from 1991 to 2023).
For girls, Leone reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 37.9% percentile (ranked #356) with 233 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 332 births per million (ranked 25.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leone ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leone reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #892) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leone is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #892 (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leone".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leone. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Leone is pronounced as lee-OHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-OH-nee, at 24.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 OW1 N) 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.
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