girls:
2.1k births since 1880
#3765 (34th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1880
#5707 (26th percentile)
The name Leonie is the #5,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,075 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,765 (34.1% percentile) for all time with 2,075 births since 1880.
Leonie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Leonie is available in 131 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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 girls, Leonie reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #881) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 111 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leonie ranks #900 for girls (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 26.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonie".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Leone. View all variations of Leone.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Leonie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 4 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Leone" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Leone..
Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Leonie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.9% confident that Leonie is pronounced as lee-OH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lay-OH-nee, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 OW1 N IY0) 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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