In 2025, 80 US girls were named Leonie, making it the 2,291st most common girls’ name of the year, up 158 places from #2,449 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 74 girls named Leonie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #547, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 80, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,815 in 2015 and #2,723 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leonie in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 2,231 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 436 babies named Leonie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 624 US girls were named Leonie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leonie ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #831 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Loni (3,878 babies since 1880), Linnie (8,709 babies since 1880), Lennie (7,725 babies since 1880) and Leni (1,962 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leioni are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.