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Leonides

About 711 American babies have been named Leonides since 1919, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 620 Leonideses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Leonides boys named Leonides

By the numbers

Total US births
711
Estimated living today
620
Median age today
28
Peak year
2015
Best rank
5,289th
Rank in 2025
7,194th
First recorded
1919
Girls / boys
18 / 693

How old the living Leonideses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 711 babies given the name since 1919, about 620 are alive — 87 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.

Where Leonides is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Leonides is most concentrated in Texas (8.6×), California (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Leonides peaked:

All the names of 2015

Leonides elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Leonides 3 4,805th

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.

Where Leonides lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 379 men called Leonides and 769 women called Leonides were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Zamora Leonides 16 0.195 417
Salamanca Leonides 29 0.182 426
Ávila Leonides 12 0.149 477
León Leonides 29 0.133 532
Valladolid Leonides 17 0.066 790
Burgos Leonides 9 0.050 1,034

Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
León Leonides 81 0.352 368
Zamora Leonides 22 0.263 427
Asturias Leonides 133 0.251 427
Palencia Leonides 17 0.213 459
Lugo Leonides 20 0.119 647
Burgos Leonides 19 0.105 711

Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Leonides against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.