girls:
18 births since 1919
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
665 births since 1920
#3922 (14th percentile)
overall:
683 births since 1919
#7056 (9th percentile)
The name Leonides is the #7,056 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 683 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 8.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,922 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 665 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1919.
Leonides first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 1920 for boys). Birth data for Leonides is available in 73 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (72 years for boys and 3 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 Leonides has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1920, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1919 to 1919), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (98.2% boys from 1920 to 2023).
For boys, Leonides reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #758) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Leonides ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Leonides reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #775) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonides".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Leonides. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.2% confident that Leonides is pronounced as lee-ah-NAI-deez, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-uh-NEE-deez, at 15.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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