Leone
Leone is a girl's name that peaked in 1916, when it was the 393rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 1,200 Leones are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leone boys named Leone
Girls and boys called Leone
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Leone crossed from girls to boys in 2015, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 82% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 69 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,637
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 393rd
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 6,182 / 455
How old the living Leones are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,637 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 17 in every hundred. Roughly 410 of them are children and 560 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leones
- Leone Leoni (1509–1590)Italian artist
- Leone Ginzburg (1909–1944)Italian writer and activist
- Leone Caetani (1869–1935)Italian politician and scholar
- Leone Nakarawa (born 1988)Fijian rugby union player
- Leone Sinigaglia (1868–1944)Italian composer
People named Leone with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leone is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leone is most concentrated in North Dakota (12.9×), South Dakota (11.3×), Wisconsin (10.2×), Minnesota (10.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular girls’ names the year Leone peaked:
Leone elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Léone +1 spelling | 24,405 | 76th |
| Italy boys | Leone | 4,241 | — |
| France boys | Léone +1 spelling | 410 | 1,631st |
| Switzerland boys | Leone | 105 | 501st |
| England and Wales boys | Leone | 101 | 2,104th |
| England and Wales girls | Leone | 60 | 2,320th |
| Ireland girls | Leone | 53 | 363rd |
| Belgium girls | Léone | 51 | 759th |
| Belgium boys | Leone | 25 | 938th |
| Switzerland girls | Léone | 15 | 1,275th |
| Poland boys | Leone | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
| Scotland girls | Leone | 3 | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leone: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Leone | 35 | 0.003% | 868th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Léone | 2 | 0.000% | 1,337th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Leone | 38 | 0.009% | 241st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Léone | 13 | 0.003% | 562nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Leone | 32 | 0.049% | 100th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leone is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Leone: rank by region
In 2025, Leone was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Leone | 461 | 5 |
In 2023, Leone was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Leone | 10 | 1 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leone appears in the lists for Province of Liège (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leone among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Leone | 13 | 44 |
| Finland boys | Leone | 11 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Leone against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.