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Leonora

#1,772 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly other, through Eleonora

Leonora has been given to 7,504 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,772 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Leonora, 2025

1 in 29,100

Leonora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonora: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly other, through Eleonora

Italian

What Leonora means

Leonora belongs to the name family reached through Leonora → Eleonora → Eleanor. Its meaning is “other”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Italian short form of Eleonora, cognate to Eleanor.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonora is used in English, Basque and Italian. Its origins include Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleonora and Eleanor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Leonora is pronounced /ˌli.əˈnɔɹə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,504 girls were recorded with the name Leonora between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 1924; its best national rank was #314 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,647 in 2020 to #1,772 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,417 in 2015 to #1,772 in 2025.

How common is Leonora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,100
114 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,772
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,158 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonora 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,158 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonora was born before 1938 — so the typical Leonora is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,040
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (1,262).

Is Leonora 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
+318
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+875
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,645
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.6%
Peak was 1924 (138)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#314
1880

Spellings of Leonora

Leonora is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 42.7% against Leonora's 2.8%.

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 Leonora is used

Across 2016–2025, Leonora was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,472 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Virginia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 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.

Leonora around the world

Where Leonora 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
    #561
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1966–1993
    #516
    in 1993
  • France
    1910–2025
    #1,877
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #95
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Leonora

People whose public names include Leonora, 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.

Leonora in other languages

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

Lenora

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

Leonora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,772
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 875
Best rank ever
#314
1880
Peak year
1924
138 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,504
Count in 2025
114

Names similar to Leonora

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

LeoraLeonorLeonoreLeoneIsadoraLeonelaLeonieElenoraEleanoraPandoraKimoraLeonnaTheodoraKamoraLeolaLeanoraEloraLeonardDevoraAmoraTziporaTeodoraElnoraLeota

Names with a curve like Leonora

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

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Sibling names for Leonora

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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