Leota
Leota is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 286th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918359 births
- Best rank
- #286in 1880
- Since 1880
- 10,446people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,446 girls have been named Leota in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 359 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 359 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leota | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 370 | |
| 1890s | 728 | |
| 1900s | 896 | |
| 1910s | 2,478 | |
| 1920s | 2,731 | |
| 1930s | 1,622 | |
| 1940s | 871 | |
| 1950s | 370 | |
| 1960s | 182 | |
| 1970s | 97 | |
| 1980s | 29 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 30 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Leota was the 344th 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 Leota
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aldapeak 1918
- Elmapeak 1918
- Florancepeak 1917
- Elvapeak 1918
- Claudiepeak 1918
- Ednapeak 1918
- Mablepeak 1922
- Edithpeak 1918
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.