girls:
6k births since 1885
#2142 (63rd percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1922
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1885
#3497 (55th percentile)
The name Leonor is the #3,497 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,008 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 54.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,142 (62.5% percentile) for all time with 5,998 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1922.
Leonor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Leonor is available in 133 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 2 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 Leonor has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leonor reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 14.4% percentile (ranked #507) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 84 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leonor ranks #892 for girls (5.8% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 40.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leonor reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #546) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonor".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Leonor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.4% confident that Leonor is pronounced as lee-uh-NOR, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-uh-nor, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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