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Leota

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leota has been given to 10,447 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1918, with 359 recorded.

Babies named Leota, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leota: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leota means

Leota is a given name.

The naming story behind Leota

Wikidata records Leota as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61993670, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,447 girls were recorded with the name Leota between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 359 in 1918; its best national rank was #286 in 1880.

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.

How common is Leota?

Leota had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leota 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leotas were born

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

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.59%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
750
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1920s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (2,731).

Is Leota 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 1918 (359)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#286
1880

Spellings of Leota

Leota is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 15.0% against Leota'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 Leota is used

Across 1910–2025, Leota was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 20,739 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

033 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 3,030
  2. 2Kansas1 in 3,571
  3. 3Iowa1 in 4,545
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 4,762
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 5,556
  6. 6Missouri1 in 5,882
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 9,091
  8. 8Indiana1 in 12,500

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. Leota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leota around the world

Where Leota 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.

  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Leota

People whose public names include Leota, 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.

Leota 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
#286
1880
Peak year
1918
359 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
10,447
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leota

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

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Names with a curve like Leota

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

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Sibling names for Leota

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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