Leone — #15254 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Leone

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,175 babies named Leone between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leone currently holds the #15254 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 253 babies received it in a single year. Leone is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 430 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leone performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,837 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Leone shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 577 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Leone in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leone in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,175 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.