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Leonida

Girls' name

Son of Leon / lion, through Leonida

Leonida has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1922, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Leonida, 1929

1 in 438,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonida: meaning, origin, and history

Son of Leon / lion, through Leonida

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leonida means

Leonida belongs to the name family reached through Leonida → Leonida. Its meaning is “son of Leon / lion”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonida is used in Italian and Latin.

Leonida comes through Latin Leonida and Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonida.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Leonida is pronounced [ɫeˈoː.nɪ.da].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Leonida between 1913 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,457 in 1913.

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 Leonida?

Leonida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929
1 in 438,000
5 of 2,192,103 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1929
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
303,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonida 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 1929 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 303,891 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonida was born before 1922 — so the typical Leonida is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
80.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 80.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Leonida 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 1922 (6)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,457
1913

Spellings of Leonida

Leonida is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 84.7% against Leonida's 0.02%.

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.

Leonida around the world

Where Leonida 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
    1905–1929
    #954
    in 1929
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leonida 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
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Best rank ever
#3,457
1913
Peak year
1922
6 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leonida

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

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Sibling names for Leonida

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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