Leontyne
Leontyne was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 213 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leontyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leontyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,373, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1966, the peak
Leontyne peaked in 1966, when 19 girls were given it, #2,895 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,373 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,098 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,848 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,373 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,209 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,878 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,799 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,128 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,193 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,777 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #7,958 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,998 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,093 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,311 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,637 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,769 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,895 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,363 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,231 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,722 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,912 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,101 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,456 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,733 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,470 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,543 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,824 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leontyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leontyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leontyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leontyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 191 Americans named Leontyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 48 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 245 people named Leontyne (245 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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).
How common is the spelling Leontyne?
Leontyne is a less common spelling of Leontine: SSA has recorded 213 Leontyne and 1,150 Leontine since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,442 babies since 1880, Leontyne is the second most given (15% of them).
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 Leontyne
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 Leontyne and names like it
- Compare Leontyne and LeontineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLeontyne peaked in 1966.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Leontyne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leontyne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.