Leonela
#8,135 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leonela has been given to 1,057 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #8,135 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Leonela, 2025
1 in 255,000
Leonela 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Leonela?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,135
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leonela 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leonelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonela was born before 1999 — so the typical Leonela is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,057
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (286).
Is Leonela 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
- +89
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,547
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,128
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.4%
- Peak was 1985 (67)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.1% average annual change
Spellings of Leonela
Leonela is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 68.9% against Leonela's 0.64%.
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 Leonela is used
Across 1910–2025, Leonela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 108,455 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Leonela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leonela around the world
Where Leonela 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 & Wales2014–2014#5,691in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Leonela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Leonela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leonela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.