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Leonie

#2,291 in 2025Girls' name

Lion

Leonie has been given to 2,231 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,291 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Leonie, 2025

1 in 41,400

Leonie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonie: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Latin and French

What Leonie means

Leonie means “lion”, associated with leo.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Léonie, from Latin Leonia, feminine of Leonius, derived from leo (“lion”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Leonie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonie is used in English and German. Its origins include Latin and French.

Leonie comes through French Léonie and Latin Leonia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Leonie is pronounced [ˈleːoniː].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,231 girls were recorded with the name Leonie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2025; its best national rank was #547 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,646 in 2020 to #2,291 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,814 in 2015 to #2,291 in 2025.

How common is Leonie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,291
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonie 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonie was born before 1982 — so the typical Leonie is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,329
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (436).

Is Leonie 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
+158
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+355
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,523
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (80)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#547
1886

Spellings of Leonie

Leonie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 35.9% against Leonie's 0.30%.

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 Leonie is used

Across 2016–2025, Leonie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 25,922 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Leonie around the world

Where Leonie 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
    1996–2025
    #610
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2007
    #351
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #25
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #110
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #871
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1952–1973
    #95
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leonie

People whose public names include Leonie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leonie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leonie. Linked forms have their own page here.

LoniLeoni

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leonie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,291
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 355
Best rank ever
#547
1886
Peak year
2025
80 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,231
Count in 2025
80

Names similar to Leonie

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

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Names with a curve like Leonie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leonie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Leonie

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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