Meaning not yet researched.
Leonidas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 591 in 2025. Its best rank was #421 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #421 in 2022; #510 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leonidas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#510 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #421.
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Leonidas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 591 boys in 2025. Peak: #421 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 760 (2022).
In 2025, 591 US boys were named Leonidas, making it the 510th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 597 boys named Leonidas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #421, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 760. For comparison, it was #518 in 2015 and #2,694 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leonidas in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 10,281 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,479 babies named Leonidas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,275 US boys were named Leonidas; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 760. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,890 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leonidas ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #197 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leo (262,124 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880), Leone (6,637 babies since 1880) and Lev (3,083 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leonides, Leonidus and Leonida are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lee and Leon.
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: Leonides (711), Leonidus (158), Leonida (26), Leonidis (12), Leonide (5), Leonydus (5), Leonydas (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #197 | #190 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #256 | #442 |
| Colorado | 22 | #301 | #391 |
| Utah | 14 | #339 | #468 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #353 | — |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #369 | #677 |
| Washington | 20 | #375 | #508 |
| Illinois | 28 | #392 | #515 |
| Virginia | 20 | #402 | #851 |
| Florida | 48 | #408 | #460 |
| Missouri | 16 | #409 | #507 |
| Nevada | 7 | #425 | #426 |
| Indiana | 16 | #445 | #503 |
| Texas | 76 | #447 | #487 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #477 | #479 |
| California | 64 | #497 | #386 |
| Oregon | 7 | #506 | #681 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #506 | #470 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #532 | #374 |
| Arizona | 13 | #549 | #452 |
| Michigan | 14 | #591 | #934 |
| New York | 26 | #595 | #435 |
| Ohio | 16 | #610 | #582 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #656 | #715 |
| Kansas | 5 | #661 | #451 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #666 | #744 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #678 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #696 | #607 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #729 | #686 |
| Maryland | 6 | #770 | #477 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #822 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #883 | #862 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 591 | #510 |
| 2024 | — | — | 597 | #510 |
| 2023 | — | — | 638 | #476 |
| 2022 | — | — | 760 | #421 |
| 2021 | — | — | 688 | #446 |
| 2020 | — | — | 649 | #457 |
| 2019 | — | — | 608 | #482 |
| 2018 | — | — | 569 | #504 |
| 2017 | — | — | 582 | #498 |
| 2016 | — | — | 593 | #505 |
| 2015 | — | — | 556 | #518 |
| 2014 | — | — | 494 | #559 |
| 2013 | — | — | 337 | #704 |
| 2012 | — | — | 288 | #788 |
| 2011 | — | — | 234 | #888 |
| 2010 | — | — | 218 | #927 |
| 2009 | — | — | 201 | #986 |
| 2008 | — | — | 241 | #880 |
| 2007 | — | — | 152 | #1,167 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,795 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,581 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,085 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,332 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,599 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,303 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,707 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,318 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,946 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,153 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,804 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,748 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,724 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,224 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,411 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,565 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,402 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,044 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,337 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,792 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,787 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,783 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,896 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,341 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,656 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,026 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #3,041 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,203 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,741 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,552 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,563 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,709 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,884 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,346 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,080 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,425 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,692 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,219 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,674 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,216 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,935 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,757 |
| 1964 | — | — | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,785 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,602 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,295 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,748 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,742 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,577 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,765 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,673 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,470 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,238 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,694 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,540 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,922 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,783 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,065 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,184 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,763 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,658 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,020 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,257 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,550 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,416 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,883 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #2,019 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,842 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,854 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,459 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,266 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,407 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,799 |
| 1927 | — | — | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,261 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,754 |
| 1923 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,930 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,218 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,408 |
| 1919 | — | — | 21 | #1,671 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,867 |
| 1917 | — | — | 24 | #1,465 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,673 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,932 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,919 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,551 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,652 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,140 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #951 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,180 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #978 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #835 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #883 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,025 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #902 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,001 |
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).