Leone
Leone is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,185 among girls’ names and #4,203 among boys’, #7,814 among all names counting both); 6,637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Leone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 11 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leone?
#14,185 among girls’ names, 2025
Leone fell from #12,483 in 2015 to #14,185 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
262 babies in 1916, the peak
Leone peaked in 1916, when 262 babies were given it (253 girls, #394 among girls’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,185 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,650 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,022 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,819 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,991 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,764 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,968 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,879 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,516 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,745 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,483 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,727 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,410 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,121 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,283 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,549 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,539 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,061 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,502 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,087 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,117 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 44 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 54 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 49 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 85 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 78 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 70 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 76 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 89 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 85 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 83 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 101 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 117 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 119 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 148 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 151 | #611 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 169 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 171 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 195 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 199 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 204 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1918 | 252 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1917 | 217 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1916 | 253 | #394 | 0.24 |
| 1915 | 225 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1914 | 171 | #406 | 0.22 |
| 1913 | 167 | #373 | 0.27 |
| 1912 | 139 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1911 | 111 | #383 | 0.27 |
| 1910 | 98 | #399 | 0.25 |
| 1909 | 98 | #372 | 0.28 |
| 1908 | 107 | #343 | 0.32 |
| 1907 | 81 | #394 | 0.25 |
| 1906 | 94 | #344 | 0.32 |
| 1905 | 102 | #336 | 0.35 |
| 1904 | 97 | #335 | 0.35 |
| 1903 | 66 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1902 | 79 | #363 | 0.30 |
| 1901 | 83 | #337 | 0.35 |
| 1900 | 67 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1899 | 42 | #451 | 0.18 |
| 1898 | 69 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1897 | 51 | #411 | 0.22 |
| 1896 | 43 | #444 | 0.18 |
| 1895 | 47 | #414 | 0.20 |
| 1894 | 36 | #468 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 44 | #407 | 0.21 |
| 1892 | 37 | #446 | 0.17 |
| 1891 | 22 | #565 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 26 | #514 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 22 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 17 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 17 | #548 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 12 | #681 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 12 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 12 | #628 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 5 | #986 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 11 | #585 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 10 | #564 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 7 | #712 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,637 Americans recorded as Leone, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Leone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leone, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 17% of the 6,637 Americans ever recorded as Leone. The median Leone alive today is 62 years old; half are between 11 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 1,813 people named Leone (1,346 women and girls, 467 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 261 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 291 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 116 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 346 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Leone born?
The states with the most babies named Leone are Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 577 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Minnesota | 520 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Michigan | 333 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Iowa | 271 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 232 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Dakota | 123 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Dakota | 108 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Utah | 99 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Nebraska | 94 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Leone is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leone is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 4.6 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 Leone with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 319,549 babies since 1880, Leone is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 2,409 babies (1.3%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Leone
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 Leone and names like it
- Compare Leone and LenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLeone peaked in 1916.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leone since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Leone.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leone alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.