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Leola vs Leondre

American parents have registered 28,181 Leolas since 1880, against 703 Leondres. Leola is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leola against Leondre, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leola Leondre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Leola for 122 years and Leondre for 24 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Leola Leondre
Total US births 28,181703
Most in one year 85530
Babies in 2025 176
Estimated living today 5,800690
Median age today 7420
Peak year 19202000
Best rank 226th girls2,922nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,546th10,695th
First recorded 18801972
Girls / boys 28,129 / 520 / 703

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leolas alive today are over 74; half the Leondres are over 20. That is 54 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leola Leondre
England and Wales 6521

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leola and Leondre.