Leonarda
Leonarda was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leonarda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leonarda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leonarda is “a female given name of rare usage.”
From Leonard + -a.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leonarda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,573, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1920, the peak
Leonarda peaked in 1920, when 34 girls were given it, #1,363 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,573 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,959 | 4.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,002 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,607 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,838 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,048 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,014 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,826 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,387 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,657 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #12,737 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,394 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,868 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,960 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,370 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,256 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,656 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,371 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,679 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,217 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,810 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,753 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,626 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,723 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,572 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,253 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,717 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,994 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,005 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,725 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,314 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,635 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,355 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,344 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,770 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,414 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,980 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,171 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,724 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,773 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,468 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,478 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,139 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,422 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,473 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,211 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,823 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,065 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,187 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,137 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,539 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,858 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,163 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,104 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,143 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,694 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,038 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,511 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,645 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,337 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,157 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,505 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,341 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,742 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,916 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,491 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,793 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,657 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,647 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,430 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,241 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,517 | 24.8 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,992 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,229 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,599 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,363 | 28.4 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,545 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,588 | 22.5 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,296 | 29.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,466 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,462 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,635 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,099 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,917 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,872 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,032 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,875 | 20.2 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,460 | 28.3 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,817 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,778 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,921 | 18.9 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,721 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leonarda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leonarda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leonarda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leonarda, and how old are they?
An estimated 376 Americans named Leonarda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 41 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,145 people named Leonarda (2,091 women and girls, 54 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 440 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Leonarda born?
The states with the most babies named Leonarda are Texas, New York and Ohio, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 67 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Mexico | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Leonarda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leonarda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leonarda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leonarda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leonarda and names like it
- Compare Leonarda and ConcettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeonarda peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leonarda since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Leonarda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leonarda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.