girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
25k births since 1910
#725 (84th percentile)
overall:
25k births since 1910
#1608 (79th percentile)
The name Leonel is the #1,608 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,036 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 79.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #725 (84.2% percentile) for all time with 25,031 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Leonel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Leonel is available in 113 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Leonel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leonel reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 67.8% percentile (ranked #294) with 584 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 584 births per million (ranked 67.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1963, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leonel is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #294 (67.8% percentile) with 584 births per million.
For girls, Leonel reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonel".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Leonel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.0% confident that Leonel is pronounced as lee-OH-nehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-uh-NEHL, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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