Meaning not yet researched.
Leonel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 942 in 2025. Its best rank was #308 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #308 in 2023; #350 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leonel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#350 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #308.
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Leonel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 942 boys in 2025. Peak: #308 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 1,084 (2024).
In 2025, 942 US boys were named Leonel, making it the 350th most common boys’ name of the year, down 33 places from #317 in 2024. That is 142 fewer than the 1,084 boys named Leonel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #308, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,084, in 2024. For comparison, it was #389 in 2015 and #984 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leonel in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 27,072 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,618 babies named Leonel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,619 US boys were named Leonel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,084. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,813 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leonel ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #151 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lionel (33,833 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lenell, Lennell and Leniel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lenell (883), Lennell (143), Leniel (106), Lenuel (10).
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 Leonel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 59 | #151 | #273 |
| Texas | 243 | #155 | #200 |
| California | 220 | #181 | #226 |
| Delaware | 6 | #194 | — |
| New Mexico | 9 | #227 | #248 |
| Colorado | 25 | #267 | #329 |
| Illinois | 39 | #284 | #320 |
| Nevada | 11 | #291 | #301 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #368 | — |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #385 | #405 |
| Washington | 18 | #414 | #358 |
| Oregon | 9 | #424 | #605 |
| Utah | 11 | #428 | #656 |
| Florida | 41 | #454 | #471 |
| Georgia | 24 | #458 | #560 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #473 | #522 |
| Iowa | 7 | #476 | #488 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #476 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #501 | #450 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #509 | #688 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #532 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #544 | — |
| New York | 29 | #553 | #638 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #556 | #802 |
| Indiana | 10 | #648 | #701 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #658 | #642 |
| Michigan | 12 | #663 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #765 | #451 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #820 | #779 |
| Missouri | 6 | #837 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #895 | #993 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,192 | #963 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 942 | #350 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,084 | #317 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,075 | #308 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,032 | #327 |
| 2021 | — | — | 868 | #375 |
| 2020 | — | — | 929 | #345 |
| 2019 | — | — | 972 | #346 |
| 2018 | — | — | 923 | #358 |
| 2017 | — | — | 903 | #365 |
| 2016 | — | — | 891 | #373 |
| 2015 | — | — | 821 | #389 |
| 2014 | — | — | 709 | #430 |
| 2013 | — | — | 606 | #463 |
| 2012 | — | — | 618 | #445 |
| 2011 | — | — | 581 | #461 |
| 2010 | — | — | 594 | #451 |
| 2009 | — | — | 578 | #473 |
| 2008 | — | — | 572 | #484 |
| 2007 | — | — | 556 | #484 |
| 2006 | — | — | 578 | #467 |
| 2005 | — | — | 633 | #422 |
| 2004 | — | — | 535 | #471 |
| 2003 | — | — | 447 | #525 |
| 2002 | — | — | 407 | #545 |
| 2001 | — | — | 410 | #535 |
| 2000 | — | — | 423 | #524 |
| 1999 | — | — | 373 | #544 |
| 1998 | — | — | 351 | #562 |
| 1997 | — | — | 303 | #591 |
| 1996 | — | — | 325 | #563 |
| 1995 | — | — | 301 | #593 |
| 1994 | — | — | 320 | #577 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,762 | 325 | #568 |
| 1992 | — | — | 320 | #571 |
| 1991 | — | — | 307 | #576 |
| 1990 | — | — | 266 | #620 |
| 1989 | — | — | 254 | #622 |
| 1988 | — | — | 221 | #642 |
| 1987 | — | — | 203 | #643 |
| 1986 | — | — | 206 | #624 |
| 1985 | — | — | 183 | #647 |
| 1984 | — | — | 168 | #670 |
| 1983 | — | — | 148 | #705 |
| 1982 | — | — | 177 | #655 |
| 1981 | — | — | 171 | #656 |
| 1980 | — | — | 155 | #699 |
| 1979 | — | — | 139 | #735 |
| 1978 | — | — | 129 | #747 |
| 1977 | — | — | 98 | #862 |
| 1976 | — | — | 117 | #772 |
| 1975 | — | — | 122 | #755 |
| 1974 | — | — | 102 | #794 |
| 1973 | — | — | 104 | #781 |
| 1972 | — | — | 87 | #864 |
| 1971 | — | — | 95 | #832 |
| 1970 | — | — | 90 | #852 |
| 1969 | — | — | 71 | #907 |
| 1968 | — | — | 65 | #894 |
| 1967 | — | — | 69 | #865 |
| 1966 | — | — | 63 | #923 |
| 1965 | — | — | 70 | #878 |
| 1964 | — | — | 75 | #888 |
| 1963 | — | — | 58 | #997 |
| 1962 | — | — | 48 | #1,114 |
| 1961 | — | — | 50 | #1,112 |
| 1960 | — | — | 64 | #948 |
| 1959 | — | — | 50 | #1,094 |
| 1958 | — | — | 61 | #974 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,036 |
| 1956 | — | — | 44 | #1,150 |
| 1955 | — | — | 51 | #1,057 |
| 1954 | — | — | 44 | #1,130 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,204 |
| 1952 | — | — | 46 | #1,073 |
| 1951 | — | — | 37 | #1,209 |
| 1950 | — | — | 50 | #984 |
| 1949 | — | — | 59 | #901 |
| 1948 | — | — | 35 | #1,225 |
| 1947 | — | — | 55 | #965 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,171 |
| 1945 | — | — | 34 | #1,137 |
| 1944 | — | — | 34 | #1,147 |
| 1943 | — | — | 32 | #1,234 |
| 1942 | — | — | 42 | #1,045 |
| 1941 | — | — | 36 | #1,099 |
| 1940 | — | — | 27 | #1,300 |
| 1939 | — | — | 46 | #924 |
| 1938 | — | — | 26 | #1,325 |
| 1937 | — | — | 36 | #1,085 |
| 1936 | — | — | 31 | #1,197 |
| 1935 | — | — | 31 | #1,216 |
| 1934 | — | — | 37 | #1,085 |
| 1933 | — | — | 23 | #1,435 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,408 |
| 1931 | — | — | 32 | #1,232 |
| 1930 | — | — | 37 | #1,165 |
| 1929 | — | — | 31 | #1,284 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,738 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,315 |
| 1926 | — | — | 26 | #1,450 |
| 1925 | — | — | 23 | #1,609 |
| 1924 | — | — | 31 | #1,346 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,397 |
| 1922 | — | — | 36 | #1,212 |
| 1921 | — | — | 26 | #1,496 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,407 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,733 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,684 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,648 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,672 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,438 |
| 1914 | — | — | 16 | #1,584 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,752 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,651 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,742 |
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).