Cleona
#13,563 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cleona has been given to 831 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #13,563 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Cleona, 2025
1 in 553,000
Cleona over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cleona?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,563
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cleona sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cleonas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleona was born before 1923 — so the typical Cleona is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (244).
Is Cleona rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +248
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 17.6%
- Peak was 1919 (34)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cleona
Cleona is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 24.2% against Cleona's 0.14%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cleona is used
Across 1910–2025, Cleona was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 415,430 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cleona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cleona around the world
Where Cleona ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2012#5,876in 2012
- Ireland2010–2010#910in 2010
- France2008–2008#6,439in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Cleona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cleona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cleona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.