Leonela
Leonela was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,135 among girls’ names; 1,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Leonela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leonela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leonela?
#8,135 among girls’ names, 2025
Leonela rose from #9,263 in 2015 to #8,135 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 8.1 per million.
67 babies in 1985, the peak
Leonela peaked in 1985, when 67 girls were given it, #1,719 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,135 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,224 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,301 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,870 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,992 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,682 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,205 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,931 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,274 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,397 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,263 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,175 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,595 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,030 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,856 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,179 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,134 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,833 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,461 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,034 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,700 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,654 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,687 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,335 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,831 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,308 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,021 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,296 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,741 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,419 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,614 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,934 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,318 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,175 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,581 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,851 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,073 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,829 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,252 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,016 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,719 | 38.9 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,165 | 27.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,805 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leonela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leonela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leonela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leonela, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,057 Americans ever recorded as Leonela. The median Leonela alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,426 people named Leonela (1,413 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 965 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 421 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 434 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 176 |
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 Leonela born?
The states with the most babies named Leonela are California, Texas and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 261 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 198 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Leonela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leonela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1980 it was given 2.0 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 Leonela 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,585 babies since 1880, Leonela is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 21 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Leonela
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 Leonela and names like it
- Compare Leonela and LeonilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLeonela peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leonela since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Leonela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leonela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.