Leondra
Leondra was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 763 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leondra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leondra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,338, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1995, the peak
Leondra peaked in 1995, when 37 girls were given it, #3,129 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,338 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,022 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,823 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,035 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,481 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,377 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,655 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,141 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,614 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,766 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 16 | #6,893 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,206 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,598 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,356 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,439 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,856 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,516 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,129 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,445 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,341 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,158 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,135 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,315 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,216 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,104 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,395 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,446 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,985 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,096 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,477 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,831 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,125 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,782 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,269 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,391 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,093 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,724 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,736 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,140 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,718 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,640 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,008 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,373 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,737 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,900 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,674 | 13.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,771 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,235 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,930 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leondra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leondra has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 49 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leondra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leondra, and how old are they?
An estimated 735 Americans named Leondra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 677 people named Leondra (622 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 743 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,382 babies since 1880, Leondra is the second most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 42 babies recorded by SSA was a Leondra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leondra
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 Leondra and names like it
- Compare Leondra and LeandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLeondra peaked in 1995.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leondra since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Leondra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Leondra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.