Leonora
Leonora is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 92 births. Its best rank was 314th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 920.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1924138 births
- Best rank
- #314in 1880
- Since 1880
- 7,390people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,390 girls have been named Leonora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 138 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leonora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 252 | |
| 1890s | 373 | |
| 1900s | 336 | |
| 1910s | 916 | |
| 1920s | 1,262 | |
| 1930s | 718 | |
| 1940s | 607 | |
| 1950s | 610 | |
| 1960s | 513 | |
| 1970s | 360 | |
| 1980s | 230 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 228 | |
| 2010s | 426 | |
| 2020s | 408 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Leonora was the 638th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Leonora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lavinapeak 1920
- Georgianapeak 1918
- Rhodapeak 1926
- Anniepeak 1922
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Theodosiapeak 1918
- Georgiepeak 1925
- Adellapeak 1920
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.