Meaning not yet researched.
Leona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 723 in 2025. Its best rank was #69 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #69 in 1905; #429 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#429 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #69.
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Leona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 723 girls in 2025. Peak: #69 in 1905 · most girls in one year: 3,335 (1918).
In 2025, 723 US girls were named Leona, making it the 429th most common girls’ name of the year, up 58 places from #487 in 2024. That is 94 more than the 629 girls named Leona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #69, reached in 1905. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,335, in 1918. For comparison, it was #682 in 2015 and #298 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leona in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 137 babies with the name. In all, 113,624 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 26,133 babies named Leona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,056 US girls were named Leona; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 723. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leona ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lona (10,924 babies since 1880), Lonna (3,351 babies since 1880), Lena (146,805 babies since 1880) and Leanna (25,937 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leoni, Leyonna and Leeonna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leoni (292), Leyonna (65), Leeonna (41), Leionna (27), Loena (23), Lionna (10), Leonnah (10), Lyonna (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leona in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 8 | #131 | — |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #232 | #256 |
| Washington | 31 | #234 | #480 |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #263 | #513 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #268 | #596 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #278 | #498 |
| Iowa | 12 | #291 | #392 |
| Ohio | 37 | #303 | #531 |
| Kansas | 11 | #309 | — |
| Connecticut | 10 | #309 | #546 |
| Oregon | 12 | #313 | #558 |
| Colorado | 20 | #313 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #385 | — |
| Michigan | 22 | #401 | #516 |
| Indiana | 17 | #404 | #742 |
| Maryland | 13 | #408 | #846 |
| Florida | 45 | #421 | #751 |
| Missouri | 14 | #435 | #652 |
| California | 76 | #439 | #765 |
| Illinois | 24 | #449 | #1,379 |
| New York | 38 | #457 | #610 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #500 | #620 |
| Arizona | 14 | #501 | #522 |
| Virginia | 16 | #505 | #1,025 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #519 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #574 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #586 | #630 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #588 | #1,014 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #591 | #629 |
| Alabama | 8 | #609 | — |
| Texas | 45 | #679 | #1,049 |
| Georgia | 14 | #732 | #862 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #809 | #547 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #858 | #975 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 723 | #429 | — | — |
| 2024 | 629 | #487 | — | — |
| 2023 | 586 | #521 | — | — |
| 2022 | 585 | #531 | — | — |
| 2021 | 600 | #515 | — | — |
| 2020 | 634 | #484 | — | — |
| 2019 | 616 | #510 | — | — |
| 2018 | 611 | #508 | — | — |
| 2017 | 565 | #547 | — | — |
| 2016 | 507 | #596 | — | — |
| 2015 | 419 | #682 | — | — |
| 2014 | 379 | #739 | — | — |
| 2013 | 374 | #731 | — | — |
| 2012 | 287 | #912 | — | — |
| 2011 | 283 | #920 | — | — |
| 2010 | 256 | #990 | — | — |
| 2009 | 274 | #971 | — | — |
| 2008 | 237 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1989 | 142 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1988 | 110 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1987 | 125 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1986 | 129 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1985 | 135 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1984 | 123 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1983 | 128 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1982 | 144 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1981 | 152 | #966 | — | — |
| 1980 | 167 | #904 | — | — |
| 1979 | 182 | #854 | — | — |
| 1978 | 184 | #814 | — | — |
| 1977 | 170 | #864 | — | — |
| 1976 | 158 | #863 | — | — |
| 1975 | 191 | #751 | — | — |
| 1974 | 189 | #750 | — | — |
| 1973 | 220 | #679 | — | — |
| 1972 | 227 | #663 | — | — |
| 1971 | 218 | #702 | — | — |
| 1970 | 285 | #609 | — | — |
| 1969 | 277 | #597 | — | — |
| 1968 | 275 | #579 | — | — |
| 1967 | 303 | #540 | — | — |
| 1966 | 317 | #530 | — | — |
| 1965 | 348 | #508 | — | — |
| 1964 | 405 | #480 | — | — |
| 1963 | 462 | #449 | — | — |
| 1962 | 419 | #472 | — | — |
| 1961 | 428 | #471 | — | — |
| 1960 | 461 | #455 | — | — |
| 1959 | 482 | #439 | — | — |
| 1958 | 530 | #402 | — | — |
| 1957 | 497 | #418 | — | — |
| 1956 | 521 | #394 | — | — |
| 1955 | 508 | #389 | — | — |
| 1954 | 568 | #364 | — | — |
| 1953 | 583 | #344 | — | — |
| 1952 | 602 | #338 | — | — |
| 1951 | 669 | #302 | — | — |
| 1950 | 681 | #298 | — | — |
| 1949 | 738 | #283 | — | — |
| 1948 | 776 | #276 | — | — |
| 1947 | 814 | #268 | — | — |
| 1946 | 819 | #245 | — | — |
| 1945 | 843 | #227 | — | — |
| 1944 | 896 | #221 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,061 | #199 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,055 | #195 | 12 | #2,216 |
| 1941 | 998 | #189 | — | — |
| 1940 | 1,028 | #183 | 7 | #3,021 |
| 1939 | 1,075 | #177 | — | — |
| 1938 | 1,164 | #173 | 7 | #3,043 |
| 1937 | 1,173 | #173 | 9 | #2,597 |
| 1936 | 1,235 | #161 | 9 | #2,549 |
| 1935 | 1,308 | #155 | 8 | #2,841 |
| 1934 | 1,472 | #140 | 10 | #2,491 |
| 1933 | 1,461 | #139 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1,670 | #134 | 9 | #2,756 |
| 1931 | 1,743 | #133 | 10 | #2,573 |
| 1930 | 1,872 | #130 | 8 | #3,169 |
| 1929 | 2,020 | #122 | 9 | #2,869 |
| 1928 | 2,085 | #122 | 12 | #2,469 |
| 1927 | 2,243 | #121 | 13 | #2,360 |
| 1926 | 2,429 | #112 | 8 | #3,278 |
| 1925 | 2,515 | #108 | 11 | #2,681 |
| 1924 | 2,794 | #103 | 7 | #3,696 |
| 1923 | 2,744 | #100 | 8 | #3,333 |
| 1922 | 2,825 | #101 | 10 | #2,919 |
| 1921 | 3,210 | #92 | 8 | #3,377 |
| 1920 | 3,166 | #89 | 16 | #2,100 |
| 1919 | 3,033 | #90 | 7 | #3,596 |
| 1918 | 3,335 | #79 | 11 | #2,632 |
| 1917 | 3,115 | #80 | 6 | #3,791 |
| 1916 | 3,086 | #75 | 17 | #1,817 |
| 1915 | 2,972 | #74 | — | — |
| 1914 | 2,174 | #79 | — | — |
| 1913 | 1,911 | #74 | 10 | #1,886 |
| 1912 | 1,650 | #76 | 8 | #1,975 |
| 1911 | 1,329 | #76 | — | — |
| 1910 | 1,220 | #79 | 13 | #907 |
| 1909 | 1,167 | #72 | — | — |
| 1908 | 1,118 | #73 | 8 | #1,073 |
| 1907 | 1,106 | #72 | — | — |
| 1906 | 1,017 | #72 | 6 | #1,193 |
| 1905 | 1,082 | #69 | — | — |
| 1904 | 998 | #69 | 5 | #1,316 |
| 1903 | 881 | #76 | 5 | #1,224 |
| 1902 | 875 | #76 | — | — |
| 1901 | 779 | #78 | 7 | #904 |
| 1900 | 825 | #85 | — | — |
| 1899 | 665 | #84 | — | — |
| 1898 | 665 | #90 | — | — |
| 1897 | 619 | #89 | — | — |
| 1896 | 556 | #94 | — | — |
| 1895 | 520 | #102 | — | — |
| 1894 | 471 | #104 | — | — |
| 1893 | 463 | #102 | — | — |
| 1892 | 440 | #104 | — | — |
| 1891 | 352 | #113 | — | — |
| 1890 | 332 | #120 | — | — |
| 1889 | 348 | #109 | — | — |
| 1888 | 311 | #118 | — | — |
| 1887 | 208 | #130 | — | — |
| 1886 | 227 | #125 | — | — |
| 1885 | 231 | #115 | — | — |
| 1884 | 210 | #121 | — | — |
| 1883 | 178 | #119 | — | — |
| 1882 | 163 | #124 | — | — |
| 1881 | 138 | #121 | — | — |
| 1880 | 137 | #119 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).