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Leonia

Girls' name

Feminine form of Leonius

Leonia has been given to 1,567 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1918, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Leonia, 2021

1 in 678,000

Leonia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Leonius

Latin

What Leonia means

Leonia is a feminine form of Leonius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Leonia is used in Ancient Roman.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonia is used in Polish. Its origins include Latin.

Leonia comes through Latin Leōnia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonius, Leona and Leonarda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Leonia is pronounced /lɛˈɔɲ.ja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,567 girls were recorded with the name Leonia between 1882 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1918; its best national rank was #772 in 1903.

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 Leonia?

Leonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonia was born before 1927 — so the typical Leonia is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
313
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1920s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Leonia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (41)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#772
1903

Spellings of Leonia

Leonia is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 24.6% against Leonia's 0.26%.

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 Leonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Leonia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 173,290 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Tennessee1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Leonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leonia around the world

Where Leonia 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.

  • France
    1901–2025
    #7,284
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leonia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#772
1903
Peak year
1918
41 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,567
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leonia

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

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Sibling names for Leonia

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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