girls:
1.1k births since 1883
#4566 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1883
#6590 (15th percentile)
The name Leontine is the #6,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,150 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 14.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,566 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 1,150 births since 1883.
Leontine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (first recorded for girls in 1883). Birth data for Leontine is available in 84 out of the 133 years between 1883 and 2015. 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, Leontine reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #339) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 77 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leontine".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Leontine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.5% confident that Leontine is pronounced as LEE-ahn-teen, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-uhn-TEEN, at 17.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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