Leonides — #5466 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Leonides

The Social Security Administration has registered 682 babies named Leonides between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Leonides currently holds the #5466 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leonides performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Leonides shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 58 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Leonides in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leonides 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 682 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.