Meaning not yet researched.
Leonard: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 438 in 2025. Its best rank was #37 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #37 in 1923; #637 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leonard in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#637 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #37.
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Leonard: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 438 boys in 2025. Peak: #37 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 5,650 (1921).
In 2025, 438 US boys were named Leonard, making it the 637th most common boys’ name of the year, up 34 places from #671 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 409 boys named Leonard in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #37, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,650, in 1921. For comparison, it was #651 in 2015 and #77 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leonard in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 200 babies with the name. In all, 295,746 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 54,111 babies named Leonard.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,193 US boys were named Leonard; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 450. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,900 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leonard ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #188 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leonardo (96,207 babies since 1880) and Lenard (10,004 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lenord, Lennard and Lenoard are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Len, Lenny, Leo, Leon and Lineau.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Polish and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lenord (1,753), Lennard (1,150), Lenoard (670), Leanord (596), Lennart (426), Leanard (387), Linard (235), Lynard (107), Leonhard (69), Leonord (19), Linnard (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 7 | #188 | — |
| South Dakota | 6 | #246 | — |
| Minnesota | 22 | #282 | #418 |
| Kansas | 10 | #371 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #403 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #423 | #529 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #429 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #499 | #639 |
| Michigan | 17 | #506 | #693 |
| Washington | 14 | #520 | — |
| Ohio | 20 | #528 | #581 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #540 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #543 | #476 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #555 | #658 |
| Colorado | 10 | #557 | #619 |
| Illinois | 17 | #559 | #463 |
| New York | 28 | #568 | #616 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #593 | #540 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #631 | #530 |
| Florida | 25 | #657 | #558 |
| Alabama | 7 | #661 | — |
| California | 42 | #661 | #609 |
| Utah | 6 | #669 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #739 | #883 |
| Indiana | 8 | #750 | #502 |
| Missouri | 7 | #760 | #551 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #762 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #770 | #952 |
| Arizona | 6 | #897 | #702 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #911 | #743 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #997 | #877 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,058 | #868 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 438 | #637 |
| 2024 | — | — | 409 | #671 |
| 2023 | — | — | 384 | #693 |
| 2022 | — | — | 373 | #707 |
| 2021 | — | — | 421 | #650 |
| 2020 | — | — | 421 | #635 |
| 2019 | — | — | 443 | #616 |
| 2018 | — | — | 417 | #636 |
| 2017 | — | — | 437 | #605 |
| 2016 | — | — | 450 | #599 |
| 2015 | — | — | 400 | #651 |
| 2014 | — | — | 385 | #666 |
| 2013 | — | — | 349 | #686 |
| 2012 | — | — | 338 | #703 |
| 2011 | — | — | 326 | #704 |
| 2010 | — | — | 388 | #626 |
| 2009 | — | — | 323 | #727 |
| 2008 | — | — | 400 | #620 |
| 2007 | — | — | 356 | #672 |
| 2006 | — | — | 384 | #619 |
| 2005 | — | — | 385 | #588 |
| 2004 | — | — | 385 | #579 |
| 2003 | — | — | 402 | #559 |
| 2002 | — | — | 396 | #563 |
| 2001 | — | — | 436 | #517 |
| 2000 | — | — | 451 | #508 |
| 1999 | — | — | 479 | #474 |
| 1998 | — | — | 471 | #471 |
| 1997 | — | — | 455 | #474 |
| 1996 | — | — | 547 | #415 |
| 1995 | — | — | 528 | #433 |
| 1994 | — | — | 644 | #369 |
| 1993 | — | — | 672 | #350 |
| 1992 | — | — | 775 | #327 |
| 1991 | — | — | 833 | #311 |
| 1990 | — | — | 863 | #293 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,348 | 914 | #270 |
| 1988 | — | — | 908 | #258 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,732 | 968 | #242 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,402 | 901 | #249 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,874 | 955 | #243 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,816 | 1,054 | #217 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,314 | 1,100 | #211 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,169 | 1,199 | #205 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,624 | 1,191 | #208 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,410 | 1,277 | #193 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,967 | 1,264 | #190 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,683 | 1,313 | #178 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,382 | 1,301 | #178 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,752 | 1,311 | #177 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,110 | 1,431 | #166 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,580 | 1,468 | #164 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,387 | 1,666 | #150 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,720 | 1,718 | #151 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,440 | 2,035 | #146 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,725 | 2,298 | #144 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,706 | 2,263 | #133 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,016 | 2,257 | #128 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,741 | 2,414 | #125 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,848 | 2,457 | #125 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,362 | 2,712 | #121 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,995 | 3,069 | #115 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,024 | 3,046 | #118 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,874 | 3,155 | #117 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,797 | 3,429 | #114 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,868 | 3,639 | #113 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,266 | 3,727 | #109 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,170 | 4,021 | #102 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,989 | 4,340 | #94 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,579 | 4,371 | #89 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,307 | 4,260 | #88 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,960 | 4,482 | #85 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,990 | 4,412 | #85 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,869 | 4,619 | #83 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,027 | 4,738 | #80 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,302 | 4,581 | #77 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,092 | 4,551 | #74 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,292 | 4,781 | #71 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,700 | 5,155 | #71 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,438 | 4,704 | #67 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,305 | 4,125 | #57 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,000 | 4,183 | #56 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,503 | 4,617 | #55 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,915 | 4,370 | #57 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,602 | 3,986 | #54 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,454 | 3,817 | #54 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,261 | 3,711 | #54 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,580 | 3,670 | #57 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,757 | 3,480 | #58 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,337 | 3,716 | #54 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,632 | 3,804 | #54 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,241 | 3,836 | #53 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,637 | 3,955 | #47 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,919 | 4,101 | #48 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,386 | 4,279 | #48 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,390 | 4,662 | #45 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,184 | 4,829 | #42 |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,184 | 5,131 | #42 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,540 | 5,311 | #40 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,208 | 5,402 | #38 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,359 | 5,465 | #38 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,661 | 5,601 | #38 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,920 | 5,486 | #37 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,663 | 5,407 | #38 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,746 | 5,650 | #39 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,424 | 5,511 | #38 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,586 | 5,010 | #39 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,432 | 4,980 | #41 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,149 | 4,694 | #41 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,839 | 4,328 | #42 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,622 | 3,993 | #44 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,539 | 2,923 | #45 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,967 | 2,276 | #46 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,917 | 1,928 | #45 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,681 | 953 | #46 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,577 | 793 | #46 |
| 1909 | — | — | 665 | #46 |
| 1908 | — | — | 614 | #48 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,232 | 547 | #51 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,846 | 492 | #50 |
| 1905 | — | — | 495 | #47 |
| 1904 | — | — | 508 | #46 |
| 1903 | — | — | 448 | #49 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,525 | 426 | #52 |
| 1901 | — | — | 362 | #54 |
| 1900 | — | — | 465 | #54 |
| 1899 | — | — | 321 | #60 |
| 1898 | — | — | 421 | #53 |
| 1897 | — | — | 310 | #61 |
| 1896 | — | — | 350 | #60 |
| 1895 | — | — | 342 | #61 |
| 1894 | — | — | 343 | #60 |
| 1893 | — | — | 275 | #69 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,226 | 294 | #71 |
| 1891 | — | — | 235 | #72 |
| 1890 | — | — | 275 | #67 |
| 1889 | — | — | 229 | #77 |
| 1888 | — | — | 225 | #83 |
| 1887 | — | — | 207 | #79 |
| 1886 | — | — | 236 | #74 |
| 1885 | — | — | 204 | #80 |
| 1884 | — | — | 206 | #83 |
| 1883 | — | — | 200 | #79 |
| 1882 | — | — | 231 | #77 |
| 1881 | — | — | 206 | #72 |
| 1880 | — | — | 200 | #78 |
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).