Leonor
Leonor was given to 81 girls in 2025, #2,267 among girls’ names; 6,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Leonor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 23 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leonor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leonor mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Leonor is “a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Eleanor”
Borrowed from Spanish Leonor.
/leoˈnoɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leonor?
#2,267 among girls’ names, 2025
Leonor rose from #3,815 in 2015 to #2,267 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 50.4 per million.
93 babies in 2024, the peak
Leonor peaked in 2024, when 93 girls were given it, #2,078 among girls’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,267 | 50.4 |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,078 | 57.4 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,840 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,883 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,591 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,873 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,696 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,370 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,459 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,560 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,815 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,509 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,965 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,809 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,633 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,552 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,026 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,713 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,825 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,653 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,539 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,387 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,072 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,448 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,149 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,484 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,078 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,946 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,009 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,589 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,501 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,137 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,964 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,439 | 28.7 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,599 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,326 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,836 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,617 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,752 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,446 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,272 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,542 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,410 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,774 | 36.6 |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,855 | 35.4 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,141 | 28.9 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,801 | 37.4 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,256 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,707 | 39.8 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,612 | 42.3 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,696 | 38.4 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,748 | 35.4 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,633 | 38.4 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,423 | 45.4 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,481 | 41.5 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,730 | 30.3 |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,536 | 35.6 |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,319 | 43.3 |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,551 | 32.1 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,412 | 36.0 |
| 1965 | 64 | #1,384 | 36.3 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,454 | 32.2 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,588 | 26.5 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,412 | 31.5 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,488 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,438 | 29.2 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,282 | 34.6 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,488 | 25.8 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,482 | 25.4 |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,370 | 28.9 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,653 | 19.9 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,512 | 23.2 |
| 1953 | 68 | #1,173 | 36.1 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,307 | 29.1 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,403 | 25.0 |
| 1950 | 66 | #1,138 | 38.5 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,167 | 35.7 |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,130 | 37.1 |
| 1947 | 60 | #1,164 | 33.8 |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,139 | 35.6 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,273 | 30.6 |
| 1944 | 49 | #1,123 | 36.9 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,218 | 31.5 |
| 1942 | 53 | #1,081 | 39.2 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,214 | 32.3 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,126 | 36.7 |
| 1939 | 59 | #919 | 53.8 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,037 | 43.5 |
| 1937 | 64 | #863 | 60.1 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,015 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 57 | #918 | 54.4 |
| 1934 | 52 | #962 | 49.8 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,069 | 42.7 |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,050 | 43.1 |
| 1931 | 61 | #880 | 57.3 |
| 1930 | 73 | #835 | 64.8 |
| 1929 | 90 | #738 | 80.6 |
| 1928 | 89 | #757 | 77.2 |
| 1927 | 74 | #859 | 62.1 |
| 1926 | 85 | #788 | 71.7 |
| 1925 | 75 | #863 | 61.6 |
| 1924 | 71 | #898 | 56.9 |
| 1923 | 78 | #831 | 64.7 |
| 1922 | 81 | #812 | 67.4 |
| 1921 | 88 | #782 | 71.4 |
| 1920 | 68 | #884 | 56.7 |
| 1919 | 65 | #874 | 57.5 |
| 1918 | 54 | #983 | 46.6 |
| 1917 | 47 | #1,033 | 43.5 |
| 1916 | 57 | #899 | 54.6 |
| 1915 | 45 | #997 | 45.7 |
| 1914 | 37 | #978 | 48.6 |
| 1913 | 33 | #936 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 36 | #843 | 64.5 |
| 1911 | 26 | #847 | 62.2 |
| 1910 | 22 | #930 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 31 | #725 | 89.3 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,067 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,117 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 19 | #861 | 64.3 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,620 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,211 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 16 | #884 | 61.1 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,176 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,282 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,657 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,145 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 16 | #866 | 61.8 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,675 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,499 | 25.2 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,601 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,360 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,368 | 28.3 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,216 | 33.6 |
| 1885 | 6 | #993 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leonor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leonor has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 135 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leonor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leonor, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 6,183 Americans ever recorded as Leonor. The median Leonor alive today is 46 years old; half are between 23 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 14,390 people named Leonor (14,191 women and girls, 199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 264 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 835 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 867 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 697 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 531 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 666 |
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 Leonor born?
The states with the most babies named Leonor are Florida, California and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 16 | #980 | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | #1,623 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,758 | 6.2× |
| New York | 10 | #1,378 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #832 | 0.0× |
Where Leonor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leonor is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 6.2 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 Leonor 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,404 babies since 1880, Leonor is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 81 babies (100%), 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 Leonor
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 Leonor and names like it
- Compare Leonor and LenorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeonor peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leonor since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Leonor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Leonor.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leonor alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.