Leonore
Leonore was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,622 among girls’ names; 2,313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leonore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leonore mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leonore is “a female given name.”
Borrowed from German Leonore.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leonore?
#12,622 among girls’ names, 2025
Leonore rose from #13,851 in 2015 to #12,622 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
70 babies in 1928, the peak
Leonore peaked in 1928, when 70 girls were given it, #876 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,622 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,710 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,886 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,576 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,966 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,211 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,339 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,748 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,851 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,074 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,533 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,408 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,680 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,619 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,706 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,894 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,113 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,806 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,511 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,413 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,776 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,018 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,722 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,956 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,972 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,639 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,076 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,702 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,230 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,087 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,189 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,617 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,098 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,686 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,723 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,062 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,352 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,027 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,092 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,251 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,043 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,841 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,027 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,303 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,641 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,154 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,103 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,383 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,247 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,949 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,814 | 16.8 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,446 | 24.1 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,506 | 22.2 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,334 | 27.4 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,464 | 24.0 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,820 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,365 | 27.4 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,780 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,664 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,284 | 30.8 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,403 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,390 | 26.8 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,235 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,247 | 31.9 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,138 | 37.6 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,188 | 35.5 |
| 1929 | 55 | #972 | 49.3 |
| 1928 | 70 | #876 | 60.7 |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,016 | 47.8 |
| 1926 | 68 | #905 | 57.4 |
| 1925 | 61 | #957 | 50.1 |
| 1924 | 65 | #945 | 52.0 |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,043 | 43.9 |
| 1922 | 61 | #957 | 50.8 |
| 1921 | 54 | #1,024 | 43.8 |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,046 | 42.6 |
| 1919 | 56 | #948 | 49.6 |
| 1918 | 51 | #1,011 | 44.1 |
| 1917 | 58 | #908 | 53.6 |
| 1916 | 66 | #833 | 63.2 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,050 | 41.7 |
| 1914 | 45 | #871 | 59.1 |
| 1913 | 31 | #973 | 49.6 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,019 | 46.6 |
| 1911 | 31 | #781 | 74.1 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,017 | 47.9 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,086 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,985 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,016 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 26 | #724 | 88.0 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,621 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,078 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,266 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,177 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,820 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 20 | #849 | 66.7 |
| 1899 | 14 | #895 | 60.1 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,074 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,073 | 42.7 |
| 1896 | 13 | #930 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 12 | #960 | 51.4 |
| 1894 | 13 | #880 | 58.3 |
| 1893 | 12 | #881 | 56.4 |
| 1892 | 14 | #818 | 65.9 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,433 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,428 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,211 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 10 | #770 | 68.5 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,197 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 8 | #821 | 60.1 |
| 1883 | 7 | #788 | 62.3 |
| 1881 | 5 | #893 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leonore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leonore has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leonore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leonore, and how old are they?
An estimated 621 Americans named Leonore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 53 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,027 people named Leonore (1,014 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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.
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 Leonore born?
The states with the most babies named Leonore are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 555 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Leonore is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leonore is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Leonore 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 72,121 babies since 1880, Leonore is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 800 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Leonore
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 Leonore and names like it
- Compare Leonore and LenoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeonore peaked in 1928.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leonore since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Leonore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leonore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.