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Leonas

Boys' name

Lion, through Λέων

Leonas has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2021. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Leonas, 2024

1 in 669,000

Leonas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonas: meaning, origin, and history

Lion, through Λέων

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leonas means

Leonas belongs to the name family reached through Leonas → Λέων. Its meaning is “lion”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonas is used in Lithuanian.

Leonas comes through Ancient Greek Λέων.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Λέων.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Leonas is pronounced [ˈlʲæː.ɔnɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Leonas between 2021 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #13,294 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leonas?

Leonas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonas was born before 2021 — so the typical Leonas is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Leonas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (5)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,294
2021

Spellings of Leonas

Leonas is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 54.0% against Leonas's <0.01%.

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.

Leonas around the world

Where Leonas 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 & Wales
    2014–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #710
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1951–1955
    #392
    in 1955

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leonas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,294
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leonas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LeonorLeonnLeonzoLeobenLeontayLeoulLeoniLeontaLeodoreLeoricLeoraLeosvelLeonnelJhonasLeonordLeonisLeonideLeondraLeontreLeonielLeovonniLeovaniLeornLeonidis

Sibling names for Leonas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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