Leon
Leon is ranked 141st among boys in 2024 (2,547 births). Its best rank was 73rd, in 1926.
- Rank in 2024
- #141up 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,5470.15% of boys
- Peak year
- 19242,677 births
- Best rank
- #73in 1926
- Since 1880
- 181,458people given the name
The story in the numbers
180,022 boys have been named Leon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 2,677 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 56 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,436 girls have also been given it, 0.79% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Leon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,475 | |
| 1890s | 2,103 | |
| 1900s | 2,859 | |
| 1910s | 15,280 | |
| 1920s | 25,577 | |
| 1930s | 23,005 | |
| 1940s | 23,577 | |
| 1950s | 21,342 | |
| 1960s | 13,824 | |
| 1970s | 9,854 | |
| 1980s | 7,625 | |
| 1990s | 5,176 | |
| 2000s | 5,062 | |
| 2010s | 11,766 | |
| 2020s | 11,497 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Leon was the 76th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Leon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Everettepeak 1919
- Louiepeak 2024
- Boydpeak 1922
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Hollispeak 1921
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Alvispeak 1924
- Gilbertpeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.