Leonia
Leonia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 772nd, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191841 births
- Best rank
- #772in 1903
- Since 1882
- 1,567people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,567 girls have been named Leonia in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leonia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | |
| 1890s | 87 | |
| 1900s | 161 | |
| 1910s | 271 | |
| 1920s | 315 | |
| 1930s | 224 | |
| 1940s | 161 | |
| 1950s | 129 | |
| 1960s | 70 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 40 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Leonia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Leonia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lethapeak 1918
- Eulapeak 1919
- Lessiepeak 1916
- Tressiepeak 1921
- Leathapeak 1916
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Henrettapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.