Leonel — #318 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Leonel

The Social Security Administration has registered 26,116 babies named Leonel between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Leonel currently holds the #318 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,079 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leonel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,618 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Leonel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,390 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Leonel in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leonel 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 26,116 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.