In 2025, 25 US boys were named Leone, making it the 4,204th most common boys’ name of the year, up 309 places from #4,513 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 23 boys named Leone in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,763, reached in 1928. The most boys given the name in a single year was 25, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,244 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Leone, making it the 14,189th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,466 places from #16,655 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Leone in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #335, reached in 1904. The most girls given the name in a single year was 253, in 1916. For comparison, it was #12,488 in 2015 and #2,088 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leone in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 6,637 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,863 babies named Leone.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 203 US boys were named Leone; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leo (262,124 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880), Leonidas (10,281 babies since 1880) and Lev (3,083 babies since 1880).