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Leota

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Leota is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 286th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
60.00% of girls
Peak year
1918359 births
Best rank
#286in 1880
Since 1880
10,446people given the name
Babies named Leota, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

10,446 girls have been named Leota in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 359 births.

The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 359 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Leota
1880s370
1890s728
1900s896
1910s2,478
1920s2,731
1930s1,622
1940s871
1950s370
1960s182
1970s97
1980s29
1990s10
2010s30
2020s32

In 1918, its biggest year

Leota was the 344th most given girl’s name 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 Leota

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.