Leone
Leone is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 335th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1916253 births
- Best rank
- #335in 1904
- Since 1880
- 6,605people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,175 girls have been named Leone in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 253 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 253 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 30%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 430 boys have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leone | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 417 | |
| 1900s | 874 | |
| 1910s | 1,837 | |
| 1920s | 1,453 | |
| 1930s | 676 | |
| 1940s | 350 | |
| 1950s | 200 | |
| 1960s | 101 | |
| 1970s | 18 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 14 | |
| 2010s | 47 | |
| 2020s | 46 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Leone was the 394th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Leone
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lucilepeak 1917
- Estellpeak 1920
- Violapeak 1918
- Zelmapeak 1919
- Ressiepeak 1917
- Hildegardepeak 1915
- Lossiepeak 1921
- Henrettapeak 1916
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.