Leona
Leona is ranked 488th among girls in 2024 (624 births). Its best rank was 69th, in 1904–1905.
- Rank in 2024
- #488up 30 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6240.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 19183,335 births
- Best rank
- #69first in 1904
- Since 1880
- 112,600people given the name
The story in the numbers
112,600 girls have been named Leona in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 3,335 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 738 → 488).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leona | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,151 | |
| 1890s | 5,083 | |
| 1900s | 9,848 | |
| 1910s | 23,825 | |
| 1920s | 26,031 | |
| 1930s | 14,173 | |
| 1940s | 9,028 | |
| 1950s | 5,641 | |
| 1960s | 3,695 | |
| 1970s | 2,024 | |
| 1980s | 1,355 | |
| 1990s | 935 | |
| 2000s | 1,486 | |
| 2010s | 4,297 | |
| 2020s | 3,028 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Leona was the 79th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Leona
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Inezpeak 1920
- Leolapeak 1920
- Ionepeak 1920
- Alvertapeak 1918
- Zelmapeak 1919
- Mablepeak 1922
- Elviepeak 1917
- Eunicepeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
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.