Leotis — boys' name
887 babies named Leotis in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Leotis was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Leotis in 1949 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Leotis
The Social Security Administration has registered 887 babies named Leotis between 1915 and 2013, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Leotis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Leotis performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Leotis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Leotis in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Leotis 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 887 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.
Leotis at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Leotis popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1915
- Peak year (1949)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 99 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
887 total births across 99 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1949 with 25 births in a single year.
Leotis popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1916 (Leotis as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Leotis accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Leotis by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 174 births that decade — 20% of Leotis's all-time total
Leotis decade highlights
- Peak decade 174 births
- Runner-up 164 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Leotis's strongest decade
174 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Leotis by state
Where Leotis concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arkansas | | 52 | 5.9% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 16 | 1.8% |
| #3 | Louisiana | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Mississippi | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Texas | | 5 | 0.6% |
52 of 887 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Arkansas 5.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.8% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.7% of nationwide
- Mississippi 0.6% of nationwide
- Texas 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arkansas accounts for 5.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.