Leonna
Leonna was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,825 among girls’ names; 1,375 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Leonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leonna?
#4,825 among girls’ names, 2025
Leonna fell from #4,552 in 2015 to #4,825 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 17.4 per million.
49 babies in 2009, the peak
Leonna peaked in 2009, when 49 girls were given it, #3,387 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,825 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,618 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,075 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,166 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,288 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,228 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,611 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,201 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,039 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,629 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,552 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,627 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,434 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,759 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,879 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,928 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,387 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,825 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,215 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,319 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,189 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,768 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,264 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,231 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,626 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,349 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,606 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,048 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,321 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,114 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,289 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,935 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,455 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,025 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,549 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,987 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,172 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,105 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,562 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,865 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,212 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,560 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,657 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,748 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,598 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,116 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,693 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,683 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,255 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,133 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,316 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,079 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,997 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,894 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,716 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,098 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,636 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,960 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,214 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,677 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,246 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,631 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,100 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,070 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,788 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,308 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,774 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,084 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,542 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,213 | 2.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,748 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,740 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,931 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leonna, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,375 Americans ever recorded as Leonna. The median Leonna alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,039 people named Leonna (1,037 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 103 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 504 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 440 |
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).
How common is the spelling Leonna?
Leonna is a less common spelling of Leona: SSA has recorded 1,375 Leonna and 113,624 Leona since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 334,763 babies since 1880, Leonna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 2,545 babies (1.1%), again the eighth 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 Leonna
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 Leonna and names like it
- Compare Leonna and LeonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLeonna peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leonna since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Leonna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leonna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.