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Leona

Pronounced /liˈoʊnə/

Rank in 2024
#488
Born in 2024
624
Peak year
1918 · #79
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 624 girls were named Leona, about 1 in every 2,585.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 3,335 babies, ranked #79.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 112,600 girls have been named Leona since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Leona per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.7
    Greatest
  2. 1.2
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 54,774 babies, 2.68 per 1,000. Silent: 24,159 babies, 1.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,963 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,711 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,850 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,585 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,499 babies, 0.32 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Leon +‎ -a.

  • A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/liˈoʊnə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Leona, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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