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Leonor

#2,267 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Eleanor

Leonor has been given to 6,183 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #2,267 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Leonor, 2025

1 in 40,900

Leonor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eleanor

Spanish

What Leonor means

Leonor is a form of Eleanor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leonor → Eleanor. The family’s proposed meaning is “other”, recorded in English with the source elements alia.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonor is used in Galician, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Galician, Leonor is pronounced /lɪʊˈnoɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,173 girls were recorded with the name Leonor between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 2024; its best national rank was #725 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,873 in 2020 to #2,267 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,815 in 2015 to #2,267 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Leonor between 1922 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,676 in 1922.

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 Leonor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,267
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonor 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 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonor was born before 1960 — so the typical Leonor is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,694
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (799).

Is Leonor 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
−189
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+606
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,548
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.1%
Peak was 2024 (93)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#725
1909

Spellings of Leonor

Leonor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 59.0% against Leonor's 1.1%.

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 Leonor is used

Across 2016–2025, Leonor was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 20,096 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

28 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 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.

Leonor around the world

Where Leonor 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
    2000–2025
    #1,166
    in 2025
  • France
    1963–2025
    #673
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Leonor

People whose public names include Leonor, 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.

Leonor in other languages

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

EleonorLeonoreEleonoraEleonoreLeonóraLéonoreEléonore

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

Leonor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,267
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 606
Best rank ever
#725
1909
Peak year
2024
93 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,173
Count in 2025
81

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,676
1922
Peak year
1922
5 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leonor

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

LeoneLeonoraLeonieLeoraLeonnaLeonoreElenorLeolaElanorElinorLeonelaLeotaConnorLeoniaHonorLeoLeonardLeomaLeonaElynorLeoniEleonorLeothaLeondra

Names with a curve like Leonor

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

EloisaZenobiaLorenzaDelfinaVitaConcepcionPetraCruzJosefinaMatildeOfeliaFrancisca

Sibling names for Leonor

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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