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Leonore

#12,622 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Eleanor

Leonore has been given to 2,313 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #12,622 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Leonore, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonore: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Eleanor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leonore means

Leonore is a short form of Eleanor.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Leonore is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /le.o.ˈnoː.ʁə/ for Leonore.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Leonore is used in English and German.

Leonore comes through German Leonore.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanor and Eleonore.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,313 girls were recorded with the name Leonore between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1928; its best national rank was #724 in 1906.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,966 in 2020 to #12,622 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,851 in 2015 to #12,622 in 2025.

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 Leonore?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,622
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonore 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonores were born

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

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
457
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (595).

Is Leonore 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
−912
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,656
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,229
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 1928 (70)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#724
1906

Spellings of Leonore

Leonore is not the most common spelling — Lenora is, with 32.8% against Leonore's 2.0%.

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 Leonore is used

Across 1910–2025, Leonore was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 65,652 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 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. Leonore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leonore around the world

Where Leonore 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
    2015–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #285
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–1970
    #707
    in 1970

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 Leonore

People whose public names include Leonore, 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.

Leonore in other languages

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

LeonorLéonorLionore

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

Leonore by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,622
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,656
Best rank ever
#724
1906
Peak year
1928
70 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,313
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Leonore

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

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Names with a curve like Leonore

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

OzellaNaomaMargareteEudoraGarnettLomaFredLuettaHarryTheolaDelphaRozella

Sibling names for Leonore

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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